For the past five years Labor’s message on broadband has been ‘trust us’. In that time barely 5000 Australian households have actually received better broadband. The National Broadband Network is up to a year behind the targets in its own Corporate Plan published in December 2010.

Today’s three-year rollout plan announced by NBN Co and the Government is a duplicitous and ham-fisted attempt to conceal that failure.

The rollout ‘plan’ does not contain a forecast of how many househ...

Today’s Residential Building Approvals numbers from the ABS highlight the fragility of the Australian economy.

The fall in March approvals of 7.8% ran counter to market expectations for a rise of 0.5%. Trend data has now fallen for 15 consecutive months, with the weakest States and Territories being the ACT, NSW, VIC and NT.

This result has occurred despite two cuts to the cash rate in the final months of 2011.

Australian households clearly do not trust the Labor Party to deliver stabili...

I want to provide an update on the Labor Government’s National Broadband Network and the Coalition’s alternative approach to communications, which of course is a critical enabler of the digital economy and business input.

At the outset I’ll stress the Coalition is committed to ensuring all Australians have access to fast, reliable and affordable broadband, regardless of where they live or work. But we don’t support Labor’s NBN, and we don’t believe it can achieve that objectiv...

Senator Conroy’s speech to the National Press Club today was as sloppy as it was vulgar.

It may have been the first time a Communications Minister has used such crude language on television during children’s viewing hours, but it is not the first time this Minister has delivered unsourced and unjustified assertions about technology.

The lack of hard evidence in Senator Conroy’s address speaks volumes. He has a whole Department to provide him with the facts, but his speech is reference...

I want to provide an update on the Labor Government’s National Broadband Network and the Coalition’s alternative approach to communications, which of course is a critical enabler of the digital economy and business input.

At the outset I’ll stress the Coalition is committed to ensuring all Australians have access to fast, reliable and affordable broadband, regardless of where they live or work. But we don’t support Labor’s NBN, and we don’t believe it can achieve that objectiv...