{"id":398,"date":"2007-03-21T14:34:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T03:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2007-03-21T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T03:34:58","slug":"rudd-promises-45bn-broadband-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Rudd promises $4.5bn broadband network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" title=\"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoooooooooommm\" alt=\"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzoooooooooommm\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/fiberbundle.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200703\/s1877739.htm\">Labor commits to $4.5b high-speed Internet network<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd has pledged more than $4.5 billion to build a nationwide Internet broadband network.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr Rudd says the network will deliver high-speed Internet access to 98 per cent of Australians within five years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The money will come from the existing Communications Fund and the Telstra Future Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mr Rudd says the new network would be done in partnership with the private sector and would run at speeds up to 40 times faster than most current broadband.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Nation building in the 19th century was about building a new national railway network for Australia, nation building for the 21st century lies in building a new national broadband network.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say <strong>right on<\/strong>, <em>righteous<\/em> Br&#8217;er Rudd!<\/p>\n<p>Can I get an <em>AYYYY-men?<\/em> I say, can I get an <strong><em>AYYYYY-men?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Season of Pork is commenced!<\/p>\n<p>Top that, Johnny.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor commits to $4.5b high-speed Internet network The Federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd has pledged more than $4.5 billion to build a nationwide Internet broadband network. Mr Rudd says the network will deliver high-speed Internet access to 98 per cent of Australians within five years. The money will come from the existing Communications Fund and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}