Just moments after host Joe Hildebrand told the leaders the third and final debate of election campaign 2016 was to be a "slogan-free zone", Malcolm Turnbull started droning on about "jobs and growth".

A collective groan went up across the nation - or among the 120,000 people estimated to be watching the initial stream on Facebook.

Mr Turnbull promised innovation - but for a minute there, it appeared our leaders were incapable of delivering more than the same drab, mindless nonsense they've been bombarding us with for the past six weeks.

The time limits - ruthlessly enforced by Hildebrand - cut the waffle to a minimum. This debate was tighter, faster - more lively than the people's forum and (a lot) less stuffy than the National Press Club debate.

It was mercifully short too, wrapping up in just 60 minutes - and that included the post-game commentary.

There were plenty of talking points along the way, of course, but also a couple of moments of real spontaneity.

The studio audience gave it to Bill Shorten - he won 17 votes to Mr Turnbull's seven - and they're probably right.

That could be because he delivered the line of the night during his NBN attack: "Press like if you prefer fibre to copper".

Rehearsed, sure, but effective.

Or it could be because the questions strongly favoured him: climate change, uni fees, same-sex marriage and housing affordability.

This is all perilous territory for Mr Turnbull - and his answer on penalty rates got particularly dicey - but he dealt with most of it confidently, his smile firmly affixed.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016-opinion/federal-election-2016-the-third-election-debate-was-the-best-of-the-bunch-20160617-gpm2wk.html

Note: Innovation is the poor cousin to proper invention. Innovation is often swamped with financial gymnastic of the worse kind for profit rather than usefulness. 

We need a bipartisan policy on the NBN instead of Turnbull's quick fixes which will cost us more both financially and in missed opportunities for Australia. Paul Budde, an internationally-recognised independent telecommunications analyst, reports.

YOU CAN'T turn the clock back and in the case of the NBN that means you can’t undo those parts of the multi-technology mix (MTM) without immediately destroying billions of dollars. While it is a pity that the original plan – providing fibre-to-the-home to 93 per cent of the population – can’t be continued, the next best thing is to deliver fibre to as many premises as possible, since that could avoid having to replace the MTM in a few years’ time.

According to the well-respected broadband research company Point Topic —

‘Copper-based technologies (DSL, ADSL and ADSL2+) no longer have the dominant share worldwide.  In terms of any connection with fibre in the local loop there are now more infrastructure lines in the ground than end-to-end copper.’

In this context, it simply inconceivable that Australia would continue to go against the trend and install more copper connections.

I find it very frustrating that on the one hand the Coalition comes up with great policies on innovation and smart cities and, on the other builds a second-rate broadband network that will have to underpin innovation, smart cities and a whole range of other developments such as the digital economy, sharing economy, and the connected economy. The Coalition is very well aware of this contradiction as it avoids as far as possible mentioning the NBN in relation to those other policies. If they believed that their version of the NBN would be the best infrastructure for these initiatives they would go out of their way to promote their NBN policy for that purpose. But they don’t ... very telling.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/nbn-the-more-fibre-the-better,9118

Malcolm never understood value. He got lucky a few times in his life, despite his very poor upbringing with a dad who was a "hotel broker" whose business was real crap since they were poor as buggery and Malco could only afford private boarding school in St Yves (also known as Snive). Malcolm became a celebrity and barrister when he basically penned down the dictation of a former spy.

"The fact of the matter is that nothing is achieved in this world, particularly politically, other than with persistence, and persistence involves repetition and it involves argument and re-argument... The public interest in free speech is not just in truthful speech, in correct speech, in fair speech... The interest is in the debate. You see, every person who has ultimately changed the course of history has started off being unpopular." Turnbull's closing submissions, 18 December 1986

Some people were more popular than others — and "being unpopular" is not a reference of being good, Mal.

Then Malcolm invested money in gold digging scheme in Ukraine and got out before the final stocktake. He also invested in some Solomon forest destruction (sorry: logging) venture which was highly profitable. Lucky Mal...

In the 1990s, Turnbull was chairman of Axiom Forest Resources, which conducted logging in the Solomon Islands under the trading name Silvania Forest Products. The latter's work was described by the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau as a "clear-felling operation", and the then Solomon Islands Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni reportedly threatened to close it down for "constant breaches of logging practices", according to a critical article in the Solomon Times

Malcolm later on became Australia's environment minister of all things... Amazing luck considering his adventure in the Solomons...

Back in time, Turnbull invested money in some dot.com businesses and sold his share of Ozemail for more than 100 times what he paid for, just before the crash of the dot.com business... He must have been the luckiest dot.com investor on the planet. 

Turnbull was active in the unsuccessful 1999 referendum campaign to establish an Australian republic as chairman of the Yes Committee. He published a book on the campaign, called Fighting for the Republic. When the referendum failed, Turnbull accused incumbent Prime Minister and Monarchist John Howard of "breaking the nation's heart"

I believe Malcolm was part of Howard's "luck" to kill off the idea in a double cross. That is to say, the plan was always to make the republican ideal collapse by Malcolm highjacking it with what he knew was a people-unfriendly concept designed to fail... Lucky Mal...

Turnbull was criticised for claiming a government allowance of A$175 a night and paying it to his wife as rent while living in a townhouse owned by her in Canberra. Lucky Mal...

By luck, Malcolm was not seen too much as a pork barreller when as the Minister for Rain, he claimed that Australian Rain Corporation, to which he was going to give A$10 millions, was Australian-based, but investigations revealed that it was 75 per cent Swiss-owned. It was also revealed that a prominent stakeholder in the Australian Rain Corporation, Matt Handbury, is a nephew of Rupert Murdoch. Turnbull has refused to answer questions regarding Handbury's contribution to the Wentworth Forum, the main fund-raising organisation for Turnbull's 2007 election campaign. Lucky Malcolm. The press lets him get away with it...

By luck, the media, especially the Murdoch media, is letting get away with crap in regard to the NBN. And I mean CRAP. But the merde-och press loves it because it prevents proper competition against Murdoch's cable network.

And of course by luck, the Australian public is dumb enough to elect Malcolm as the 30th PM of this fair country. Lucky Malcolm...

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Another day, another solemn prime ministerial hypocrisy: climate change and the Reef, Centennial Parklands and trees, Orlando and homophobia, Indigenous recognition. It can't be easy. All this hypocrisy takes its toll. In a trajectory of doom that is positively Shakespearean, Malcolm Turnbull seems emptier and drier with each appearance. The man who had everything (but wanted more) is already a husk of his former self. Where will it end?

I thought the problem might be wealth. Extreme riches do seem to make blindingly bad political leaders – Ceaucescu, Berlusconi, Trump. But why was unclear, until Margaret Atwood gave me a clue. Wealth isn't really wealth. It's really debt.

Everything we have, from jobs to bodies to microchips, we take from the earth. But – and here's the thing - it's not a gift, it's a loan. Everything must be repaid. The ancients knew this, constantly making downpayments via death and sacrifice. But for us – more inclined to sacrifice nature than sacrifice to her - the bigger the pile, the greater the debt. So I wondered whether that was making Malcolm wimpy; massive wealth, massive debt.

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-great-tragedy-of-malcolm-turnbull-20160616-gpkors.html

I agree with Malcolm, HE HAS NOT CHANGED ONE IOTA... All it is, is that we thought he was better than he is. We got swindled (not me) by his investment banker, rain-maker and tree-feller smile and that he had social values... He has nil social values. HE ONLY UNDERSTANDS THE SMELL OF CASH. His best move so far was to remove Tony Abbott... Well this was a NEAT trick. The Liberals (CONservatives) were DEFINITELY not re-electable with Tony at the helm. By removing Tony, we end up with the same Liberal (ULTRA-CONservative) crap. Turnbull actually DID US A DISSERVICE. Lucky Mal... He will get elected and we'll be conned again and again...

Malcolm and Kevin are trying to bring Murdoch to heel... Good luck. The beast has many Hydric heads that will bite back... Now as we know, Malcolm was responsible for implementing the lousy NBN in Australia which at best is supplying homes with 100 bps, but on average most people have opted for the 50 bps because it's cheaper. The good part of Malcolm pedestrian bizoid is that we, customers, did not have to buy an expensive unit to convert optic-fibre to usable computer data... and most of us are happy it works a bit better than a string stretched between two tins of beans...

MEANWHILE IN CHINA:

Under the plan, the number of 5G base stations per 10,000 people will be increased to 26, and gigabit optical fiber networks will be extended to most urban and rural areas of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced on Tuesday.

Digital infrastructure has been defined as a “strategic, basic and pioneering industry to help build a new type of digital infrastructure and support economic and social development,”according to MIIT official Xie Cun. 

Information technology will be “deeply integrated” with the economy and society, with the goal of spurring internet innovation and creating a business boom, the ministry added. Meanwhile, the authorities are working on “a new type of supervision system”as well as measures to protect users’ personal information and data.

READ MORE: https://www.rt.com/news/540471-china-5g-plan-infrastructure/

Meanwhile Huawei is working on the 6G technology...

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