Election 2016: it's ALL about the Economy. If not a Real NBN now, when?

Election 2016 will be a watershed decision for Australia.

We're in trouble, deep trouble, and nobody is talking about it. "Jobs and Boats" is a side-show, the Good Times are well and truly over: we need to address hard questions or we'll be hammered.

If you think 8 years on from the GFC, still with record-low interest rates, heading down to 1%, signals anything but a fragile economy on its knees, facing "falling off a cliff" from the slightest nudge, you haven't been paying attention... If this were a plane crash, we're in the last few hundred feet while the 'pilots' are working hard to avoid it, while over the PA they're saying "we have a slight problem".

The key to our future is "The New Economy". The  chief enabler for it is simple: Fast, Real Broadband, everywhere. Any technology that buffers, 'breaks-up' pictures/voice or has long delays is not 'Real Broadband'. The NBN matters to our future now, more than at any other time.

Deflation, Housing Bubbles and Sacred Cows

Contrary to the Political party's dictate, there is no Revenue or Spending problem in Australia. There is however, a lack of honesty, debate and courage, the willingness of our Pollies to broach hard subjects and engage in a meaningful three-way conversation: voters, conservatives and progressives.

There's $120 billion of Revenue that Political Parties choose not to collect or discuss, yet they claim we have a $37 billion 'deficit' which they say will increase "as far as the eye can see".

It doesn't have to be this way.

Fast Start to 2013 Broadband posts

Primer: A fast start to Stevej-on-bband, pre-election 2013 posts

• Taking on Three NBN Memes of the Mainstream Media
• Why you want Fibre to your premises
• A longer version of “Why Fibre?”:  Problems with the Coalition Plan
• A pitch for “Fibre to the Farm”
• NBN Financials: Hidden costs of a VDSL Fibre to the Node network
• Copper vs Fibre - The Rivers of Gold Scenario: What if NBN Co does better than forecast?
• Sanity Checks of Turnbull 2013 Plan: too many questions, never addressed by business journalists
• Unpicking Coalition Claims: failing the Sanity Checks
  

  Is the real Coalition NBN plan going to need CapEx of $20.5 billion or $35.6 billion, a 75% increase on their first estimate??

Index to Pre-Election NBN Posts

These are links, in reverse date-order, to posts published prior to the 2013 election.

A simple coloured tagging of the content has been added.