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Labor’s $3 billion NBN gamble

Value for money or desperate election pitch?

16 January 2025

6:22 PM

16 January 2025

6:22 PM

Anthony Albanese wants to throw more money into the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) black hole. To me, it smells like electoral desperation.

Twice the Australian Prime Minister announced the $3 billion NBN bid on X.

Hidden in the announcement was the reassurance that a vote for Labor was a vote to deliver on #Kevin07, Rudd, and Julia Gillard’s ‘fast and free, fibre-optic end to the era of copper’.

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