The NBN rollout is complete but one couple looking to upgrade found better internet via a garden shed
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This green shed helps deliver internet to one household in the Hunter region.
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Ben and Kristen Nicol made their dream move from the city to the Hunter region of New South Wales last year.
Key points:
The Government declared the NBN rollout was formally complete late in 2020
The NBN is a patchwork of ever-upgrading technologies and more alternatives appear each year, making it difficult to know what s best
One couple in NSW wanted to upgrade from NBN satellite so used a shed on a hill to redirect mobile broadband to their home
Australian Labor Party
Scott Morrison’s dud National Broadband Network is failing to deliver the legally-required minimum broadband speed of 25 megabits per second to nearly a quarter of a million Australian homes and businesses.
Despite Communications Minister Paul Fletcher declaring the NBN “built and fully operational”, an NBNCo report released quietly two days before Christmas says the network is failing to meet the legislated minimum download speeds for downloads for up to 238,000 household and businesses.
It is a requirement of both the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer) Act 2020 and the NBN Statement of Expectations that all Australians have access to minimum broadband speeds of 25 megabits per second.
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Australia’s Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack has been criticised for comparing the riot at the U.S. Capitol that occurred during protests in Washington DC last week, to the violent and destructive riots that occurred over several months in 2020 by Black Lives Matter, which was founded by Marxist organisers.
“I know this is very difficult for the United States as it goes through great change but … any form of protest, whether its a protest over racial riots or indeed what we’ve seen on Capitol Hill in recent days is condemned and abhorred,” he told ABC News on Tuesday.
The Coalition continues to defend its members over spreading misinformation on social media while criticising tech companies for decisions to moderate their platforms.
Acting Australian Prime Minister Critical of Big Tech Trump Ban
Australia’s Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack has criticized social media giant Twitter for banning U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform.
McCormack told ABC radio on Monday that it was not up to Big Tech to decide whose voices were heard.
“I don’t believe in that sort of censorship,” the National Party leader said.
“There’s been a lot of people who have said and done a lot of things on Twitter previously that haven’t received that sort of condemnation or indeed censorship,” he added.
In fact, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s controversial Twitter post, which sparked national and international outrage, is still pinned to the top of his feed.