Aussies support NBN by two to one: Survey

Two thirds support means 66.7% support. 56% is more than 10% short of this figure. Only by using Labor-nomics is 56% is closer to 50% (6% difference) than it is to 66.7% (10.7%). So, just to correct your sloppy & biased journalism, it would be more accurate to say slightly more than half of polled Australians support the NBN. And I bet that half is the same half who get more in benefits than they pay in taxes. This attitude is what got Greece into it's present disastrous economic state. Why not just stick to facts?

Mr Taxpayer, read the article. It clearly says 56 per cent support the NBN and "25 per cent of those surveyed opposed the NBN" - that is more than twice as many respondents who support the NBN. Obviously, the remaining 19 per cent had a different answer/s. So the story is correct. It has nothing to do with Labor-nomics. I should also point out that this publication, ARN, has no political policy and favours no party.

Taxpayer is so typical of many far left or right wingers. Their ideaology blinds them to pragmatic assessments of what is happening outside of their personal world.

I have been part of the datacomms industry since 1979 and have watched society re invent itself around technology and communications as the availability of bandwidth increased. Most so called experts today don't really have the age perspective to know about these changes. People live, think and behave quite differently compared to 1980. A very major influencer for 15 years has been the Internet and we have only really just started.

Voices such as TaxPayer seem obsessed with nitpicking over anything to put another knife into the NBN. Money seems to be such an obsession to many people, look at his handle, money focussed. Where has the vision gone for so many people that they cannot understand the society changing impact that the NBN will be a part of? I am glad that public opinion is slowly changing which is what the article is about.

During the 1950's and 60's a massive transformation happened in Australia. Many lump it all together as post WW2 modernisation but another view is that our agriculturally orientated young men went into a international war and came back with a vision to build a better Australia. Part of that re-building spirit was to provision the concept of every Australian house having a phone service so we could communicate better and is a major strength of this nation. That investment in copper was no less a challenge than Fibre to the Home via the NBN is today. It was only possible when a Government monopoly was tasked to do it, the old PMG, and I am glad that Labour had the gumption to get it started.

The NBN is todays replacement of a neglected (for commercial reasons) copper cable system that is unable to match the expectations of current generations. This costly to maintain corroding copper wire system with bandaid broadband ADSL is already dismissed as garbage by many of the new crop of "adults" - young teens that know what we have is inadequate for what they want to do in our immediate future.

I am very much a Liberal supporter but have been so dissapointed that this issue of nation building has been so torn at by us all. I am also surprised that our Liberal lead telecommunications advisor is so against the NBN vision given where he came from (ex Optus). I wonder at times about what advice is delivered to the Coalition strategists that they have created such politcal polarisation and mis-understanding in Australia as reflected in these polls.