by Stephen Conroy, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Investment in key infrastructure is a first order economic policy priority for the Rudd Government.

The National Broadband Network (NBN) is one of the largest infrastructure investments undertaken by any Australian Government and is a vital building block for our future economic productivity and prosperity.

Broadband is essential enabling infrastructure for all sectors of the economy. Throughout the world, it is already helping governments, businesses and citizens do what they have always done more efficiently – and helping them to do things that they have never done before. This is the digital economy.

To read this article by Stephen Conroy in full, see www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24696780-5013038,00.html.