Originally Posted by mavx4

1. the huge debt you are talking about is around 11% of our GDP, and you will struggle to find many developed nations on the planet with lower public debt to GDP ratio than Australia.
2. again, the NBN is off budget and has nothing to do with the current budget deficit. NBN is a revenue generating project which will pay for itself from people subsribing to it.
3. the argument that "copper is good enough, who needs fibre" is a mirror argument of "iron is good enoguh, who needs copper". Parliament Arguing About Copper Wires In 1910 Makes For Some Amazing Reading | Gizmodo Australia
4. bandwidth requirement grows at exponential speed. I highly doubt copper wire will be able to support multiple homes streaming 4K movies, which is likely what will happens in a couple of years. Just because we haven't invented things that require high speed internet yet, doesn't mean these things wont be invented in the future (people thought they didn't need cars before they were invented and horses were fine for centuries).