Yes these are REAL issues but have been resolved as they have sold up the property and moving to the regional centre to retire. BUT the new owners of the farm have these problems at the moment, its NOT a hypothetical.
All I'm saying is broadband to every home is just not practical, realistic or needed money spent on more BASIC infrastructure in Australia may be a wiser investment.
But even in the city aren't we a mobile society with all sorts of mobile gadgets needing Internet connections maybe a wireless / RF system and for that matter mixed delivery system would be better I doubt if we can solve these problems on a forum but just be aware that other people in Australia have needs and wants that may be different from yours.
on the fibre optic part of this thread.
neither liberal or labor is saying they are going to connect fibre to every house in australia. they are talking broadband.
that is any infrustructure with a wide band. ie. cable, fibre, satelite, wireless.
i'm not sure why the media is fixated on the use of fibre. fibre would never be suitable for rural locations. both wireless and satelite is the only way to go.
as far as i am aware no-one is suggesting runniong a fibre cable 13 km up a dirt road to service one residence.
yes, all places can actually get broadband. but look at the cost versus data amounts for satelite. it's massive. then add the cost of the equipment. our rural business and communities are massively dissadvantaged. so people stay on dial up as that's all they can afford. sometimes they have no choice and have to go satelite.
i'm in favour of the a better broadband service in oz. i thinks it's critical. all of the parties are as well. everyone should have cost effective access to min adsl2+.
business need multiple lines at adsl2+ depending on the amount of staff and type of business.
anyways, i was pointing out that both major parties have a national broadband policy.
the libs are against the NBN policy detail. not the concept of better national coverage.
and labor is saying the libs policy doesn't take us far enough forward.
edit* when the independants were first interviewed on abc most of them had to travel to major regional centres to be able to access the communications needed. they didn't have a fast enough net access in their area to be able to stream a camera.
i still think all this money could have been better spent on something much more important....like a giant 5km2 dam on top of mt tamborine that works awesomely in any wind direction, has heated water, giant flood lights and a wave making machine
To get back to the original poster's question, apparently that bit of text was first posted on Andrew Bolt's blog. The guy is a 1st rate douchebag (think talkback radio Alan Jones type but in press) and I wouldn't trust anything on his blog.