[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Stewart Fist]

Karl writes
> 
> What I am saying is that broadband connectivity to *everywhere* as a
> matter of course is one way to encourage decentralisation.

No you don't encourage decentralisation (in the sense of building
life-style-rich alternate urban centers to Sydney and Melbourne) by building
broadband or any other form of infrastructure *everywhere*.

You encourage it by selecting one of two areas with the ideal location and
environment, and fund them excessively to make it worth-while people
shifting.

I would much rather the Australian government put a couple of billion
dollars into creating alternative centres in such places as Albury Armidale,
etc. than in trying to plough optical fibre into the ground at the back of
Whoop-woop.

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