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- Title
- Broadband: historical parallels
- Author(s)
- Given, Jock
- Abstract
- What political and technological comparisons can be drawn between the surprise announcement by the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, to build a multi-billion dollar national broadband network and the decision made by Billy Hughes in 1938 to construct a national communications network?
- Publication type
- Radio broadcast
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Source
- Saturday Extra, presented by Geraldine Doogue, 11 April 2009
- Publication year
- 2009
- Keyword(s)
- 20th century history; Australia; Broadband; Communications policy; Government policy; Hughes, William (1862-1952); National Broadband Network; Prime ministers; Rudd Government
- Publisher
- ABC Radio National
- Publisher URL
- http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/broadband-historical-parallels/3144280
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2009.
