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 > What is Australia-tier internet?

On par with many non-developed nations, despite being an industrialised OECD nation with a high HDI and GDP per capita, due to outdated and aging infrastructure that is under-maintained. Our previous government was a centre-left-wing government which promised to modernise the nation's internet with a national fibre-optic broadband network, but lefties being lefties, and promises being promises, the project never properly met schedules and targets, and was plagued by all sorts of delays, additional costs, and insufficient management. What was supposed to be completed within the span of a few years seemingly took forever, and as the centre-left government was elected out of office and replaced with a centre-right government, the national broadband network was indefinitely halted and shelved. A small proportion of households in shitty swing electorates got the fibre-to-the-premises connection, and the rest of us ended up with the same shitty and worn-down copper network as before. Meanwhile, stupid latte-sipping left-wingers who are upset at the election results blame the centre-right government for killing the broadband network, when it was in fact the incompetence of the previous government that led it to its inevitable doom in the first place.

Moral of the story: Don't make promises you can't fulfill, and don't trust people who make promises that are unlikely to be fulfilled. Chances are that you're not going to get the benefits, but some ugly nerd with bad acne in a swing electorate will, because these policies are essentially bribes for election votes.