Daring to dream large: The broadband network will be a long, hard sell, and it's telling Labor is taking it on – Australia

Sydney Morning Herald | Katharine Murphy | December 21, 2010
Does it really take one Prime Minister and three cabinet ministers to change a policy light globe? It does when the light globe is the $36 billion national broadband network. The long-awaited business plan for the network was released yesterday by Julia Gillard, Stephen Conroy, Penny Wong and Wayne Swan – rather than the no-frills press conference by a single minister originally advertised, we were given a modest chorus line.
But the ensemble cast, while hastily put together, was more than an abstract piece of set dressing. This project more than any other has proved an organising principle for a government that had fallen dangerously into narrative incoherence. Like it, love it, loathe it, this project is about telling voters what the Gillard government is really about or, more precisely, what it really wantsto be about when it plots itself against Labor governments that have preceded it.
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