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The timing is particularly exquisite coming as it does in the wake of the Coalition's policy announcement, which focussed on the how rather than the why of its NBN proposal, which contained unrealistic and misleading claims for the capabilities of HFC and wireless technologies and which lead to an embarrassing technically-focussed interrogation of Liberal Party leader, Tony Abbott by the ABC's Kerry O'Brien.

Announcement of the 'upgrade' was made by Gillard at the official opening of the Tasmanian NBN. It has resulted in Abbott making an even bigger fool of himself than he did on the ABC, with a knee-jerk dismissal of Gillard's statement as "utterly implausible."

In a press conference in the outer Sydney suburb of Penrith, Abbott said: "It's very hard to take seriously a government which suddenly pulls yet another technological rabbit out of a hat just because it's under enormous pressure in the closing stages of an election campaign."

Sorry Tony, but there are no rabbits, no hats and no trickery, at least not technical trickery. Here's the reality.

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