Kevin Rudd has leapt onto social media to resume his role as most entertaining messy bitch on Twitter, but this time he kinda has a point to make.
Sometime after the SMH reported on the Federal Governments decision to give two million households access to fibre-to-the-home NBN internet connection, Rudd took his chance to put a spotlight on his discontent.
“What a mega backflip on the part by Morrison,” he wrote.
“For 7 years they’ve botched my govt’s 2009 plan for fibre to the premises, instead wasting billions with fibre to the mythical “node”, giving us the worst speeds in the world. Now this! What total policy frauds.”
The highlights of this heated spiel are definitely “mythical node” and “what total policy frauds”. You keep being you, Rudd.
What a mega backflip on the part by Morrison. For 7 years they’ve botched my govt’s 2009 plan for fibre to the premises, instead wasting billions with fibre to the mythical “node”, giving us the worst speeds in the world. Now this! What total policy frauds https://t.co/aGCAI4H3pn
— Office of Kevin Rudd, 26th PM of Australia (@MrKRudd) September 22, 2020
Basically the Morrison government wants to hook us up on super fast internet speeds of around one gigabyte (GB) a second by 2023 – for reference, we’re at half the global average with a 41.78 megabytes per second (Mbps) Their plan is to bring fibre cabling to homes, which is all well and good, but it’s also looking to cost around $4.5 billion dollarydoos, which is… not so good.
Naturally, Labor would be pressed at this information, as they had this exact idea back in 2009, which has, until now, been turned down by the Liberal government in favour of a fibre-to-the-node option that was pretty much outdated as soon as it went in the ground.
Although Rudd does make quite a few points in his messy bitch moment, followers aired out their discontent with him beneath his Twitter post, essentially creating a train of discontent. All aboard.
Your unplanned, unbudgeted NBN would still not be rolled out yet and tens of billions more would have been wasted. At least now only those who are actually willing to pay for a super-fast connection will have the money spent. Imagine the economic disaster otherwise!
— Brian Stevens (@factchekka) September 22, 2020
Simultaneously there were people who agreed that yes, this plan is a big old dumb move by the Federal Gov considering their previous stance on the matter.
I was a technician apart of the rollout and all I could do was shake my head at what we were having to install. Currently 3rd world countries have better internet than Australia. Ridiculous…
— Phil Collins (@Theonly37849972) September 22, 2020
Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese has also put his hat in the ring, with a much more level-headed response.
After years of rubbishing Labor’s plan for the NBN, and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars, the Liberals have finally admitted that fibre to the home is what we needed all along.
If only they had a Communications Minister telling them so back in 2013. pic.twitter.com/w4NH9eDAqQ
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) September 23, 2020
To complete the messy bitch triad, I excitedly await a response from the supreme shady queen, Malcolm Turnbull.
