The internet, a series of complex tubes

The government is set to unveil a $43 billion dollar broadband national network that will see high-speed broadband delivered to ‘all Australians’.

The Rudd government says the plan will benefit ‘all Australian schools, businesses and families’, but is a little vague on exactly how it benefits these groups other than saying ‘the velocity of the Internet will increase 100 fold’. Mr. Rudd said the plan, in addition to helping his declining popularity in the polls, will allow Australia to catch up to technological superpowers China, Burma and Korea in the technological stakes.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbot has slammed the idea, mainly because Rudd was the one that suggested it, but in addition, proposed that the plan has "serious flaws". Abbot said "we simply don’t have the technology available at the present time for internet that would be delivered 100 times faster at the current rate".

"Therefore" he said, "the plan is useless". Abbot also raised concerns that with such high-speed Internet, Australia’s Internet resources could run out by the year 2015. He urges all Australian’s to "save the Internet, like we save water".

Senator Barnaby Joyce said it was case of "the blind leading the blind".

Tony Abbot, and the Liberal Coalition, urges all Australians to ‘save the Internet’ by following these simple steps:

· Always turn off you computer when not in use

· Don’t over rely on the Internet for social networking

· Under no circumstance should you type ‘Google’ into ‘Google’

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