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NBN

1 Sep 2015

Q. The Government’s national broadband network plan is to more quickly roll out fibre to local nodes and let Telstra’s copper network carry internet traffic to households, compared to Labor’s plan to roll out fibre to every household outside rural areas, which would cost more and have taken longer but produced higher speeds. Which plan do you believe is best for Australia?

Total

Vote Labor

Vote Lib/Nat

Vote Greens

Vote other

The Liberal Government’s plan

29%

7%

63%

6%

26%

The Labor plan

38%

62%

12%

66%

43%

Don’t know

33%

31%

25%

28%

31%

38% think the Labor NBN plan is best for Australia and 29% think the Government’s plan is best. 33% did not give an opinion. These views were consistent across age groups.

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