Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, the ABC’s Chris Uhlmann, Adam Bandt and Bob Katter at the National Press Club in Canberra. Picture: Gary Ramage Source: The Australian INDEPENDENT MP Tony Windsor has questioned the $43 billion National Broadband Network price tag, describing it as a “fictitious number”. Mr Windsor is one of three country MPs at [...]
The NBN’s uncertain future notwithstanding, Tasmania’s premier, David Bartlett has launched an innovation strategy spanning five sectors of the state’s economy but with a strong focus on the NBN and the state’s digital economy. He said the chosen sectors – agriculture, renewable energy, the digital economy, lifestyle and tourism – had been identified by the [...]
In addition to agreeing to a request for a briefing from the Secretary of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy Peter Harris, she also assured the three MPs that Communications Minister Stephen Conroy would be available for consultation at their request. Ms Gillard wrote to the three rural MP’s – New England’s Tony Windsor and [...]
Independents want NBN costs broken down into bite-sized pieces. Independent MP Tony Windsor has challenged the Gillard government to provide “the real figure” for its broadband plan for Australia. Windsor, one of five independent MP’s likely to shape the leadership of the next Federal Government, told the National Press Club in Canberra that the $43 billion price [...]
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