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Re:Finding a former Australian Prime Minister’s passport num... by mmerlin on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @05:29AM (#34967774)
Abbott the luddite, gave us copper internet and spent 400% more than promised to hobble the national broadband network purely for Murdoch's profits and favours.

Abbott stopped the nationwide FttP rollout (that had just begun after years of preparing) at about 5% so his political opposition predecessors got no credit for a nation building project (and Murdoch profited maximally and his media loves Abbott and the Liberals ever since)

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Re:Finding a former Australian Prime Minister’s passport num... by runsonrum on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @05:39AM (#34967838)
I believe that shame goes to Malcolm Turnbull (as Minister for Communications in Abbott Gov).

A Co-worker of mine actually sent a lengthy email to him explaining the limitations and all he got back in reply was that he disagreed.

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Re:Finding a former Australian Prime Minister’s passport num... by glenngillen on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:04AM (#34968378)
Yeah, Turnbull. Who you’d have hoped would have known better having previously been CEO of one of the country’s largest ISPs. I seem to recall a video where Mark Pesce publicly called him out on how short sighted his decision was and Turnbull just scoffed.
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Re:Finding a former Australian Prime Minister’s passport num... by doctor_eval on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:02AM (#34968788)
He gave us a lot of other things as well. 10 years of climate wars among much else. I though he was the worst PM in my lifetime, but then along came Morrison…
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