OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
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Renai LeMay
Thursday, 02 September 2010 11:00
IT Policy - Government Tech Policy
You might have expected that the Treasury’s costings of the two major party’s election policies — released to the Independents and the media late yesterday — would contain a fair amount of detail about how much each party’s wildly differing broadband policy would cost.
Not so.
Despite the Coalition’s pledge to cancel Labor’s $43 billion National Broadband Network project, Treasury analysis of the impact (PDF) showed just a $900 million saving to public debt interest payments over four years if the Coalition was to win Government.
Labor’s document (PDF) doesn’t contain any mention of the NBN at all — a fact that is consistent with Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s statement on Friday that although Opposition Leader Tony Abbott had sought access to a full costing of the NBN, the full NBN costings were disclosed in the Pre-Election Fiscal Outlook prepared by Treasury.
“If he seeks to have a briefing from Treasury and Finance for a more detailed assessment of those Budget figures then of course that will be made available to him,” Gillard said.
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