Australia walks off NBN construction cliff
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Communications Minister, Paul Fletcher, issued a media release trumpeting that Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is now 99% complete:
NBN Co has already reached its 2019-20 end-of-year target of delivering National Broadband Network (NBN) connectivity for 11.5 million homes and businesses across Australia.
Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said the build of the NBN is now 99 per cent complete with the 30 June 2020 build milestone achieved one month ahead of schedule notwithstanding recent bushfires, floods and the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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