Anthony Albanese wants to throw more money into the National Broadband Network’s (NBN) black hole. To me, it smells like electoral desperation.

Twice the Australian Prime Minister announced the $3 billion NBN bid on X.

Hidden in the announcement was the reassurance that a vote for Labor was a vote to deliver on #Kevin07, Rudd, and Julia Gillard’s ‘fast and free, fibre-optic end to the era of copper’.

Albanese’s $3 billion dip into the pockets of Australians will add to the fortune already ‘invested’ into NBN Co by the Liberal National Coalition (LNP) from 2020 to 2022.

According to the ABC, Albanese is resurrecting Kevin07’s ‘original plan’.

The ABC then warned that spending billions to boost internet speeds is not a quick fix and comes with the risk of being a complete waste of money.

Australians, they admitted, are moving away from fixed-line internet service providers and over to satellite services.

This includes shunning the Rudd-Gillard ‘multi-billion-dollar white elephant’ (the ABC’s words, not mine).

As Tony Abbott argued when Rudd and Gillard promised ‘fast and free’ internet, satellite tech would make fibre redundant.

The Abbott-Turnbull updates to copper over fibre were seemingly made with both the cost to taxpayers and satellite internet advancements in mind.

This would mean less cost to taxpayers, who might prefer to keep their hard-earned money and spend it on what Elon Musk is offering.

Starlink’s internet service is very successful and may ultimately prove that Abbott was correct in his approach.

The Rudd-Gillard ‘white elephant’ isn’t delivering.

Many Aussies are still connected to copper. Many still have poor internet connections.

I am one of them.

When a previous ISP called in the NBN to solve our intermittent and problematic internet issues, the NBN crew appeared onsite three times.

During those visits, nothing improved.

On their final visit, the crew blamed us for the problem, saying it was the modem.

After replacing said modem, and paying a significant sum to replace old copper with new copper wiring – the problem still exists.

Rudd and Gillard’s ‘free and fast’ internet promises were a pipe dream.

At the time, Tony Abbott warned us NBN would be redundant technology.

It was proverbial Faustian deal anchored an albatross of more debt around the heads of Australia’s poor and working class.

Since then, Canberra’s Clueless Morgans have thrown billions of dollars into the broadband black hole.

There’s also the election angle to tackle.

Like Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) is an election sweetener for the Labor Party.

If the LNP or another party declares public funding cuts, Labor will scream, ‘threat to democracy’ or ‘putting lives at risk’.

Improvements to value are re-branded as emotionally deceptive campaign fearmongering.

If you think I’m stretching the truth, who remembers the SMS dump known as Mediscare?

TAFE, NDIS, NBN, and Medicare provide Labor with political capital.

All of it paid for with other people’s money: Australian workers, past, present, and emerging.

Labor’s recent blame-shifting on inflation and government spending, proves there is a tangible contempt for what these investments return to the taxpayer.

A just weight for the investor is money management 101.

Cost to benefit scrutineering is also Godly stewardship. Leaders are expected to conserve, create, and show concern for what He has entrusted to them. This is why genuine conservatives believe in a safety net for the widow, orphan, sojourner, and the deserving poor.

The hard work is in making sure everyone – that’s the just weight bit – is not made poor in the process.

Labor has shown little to no concern for communicating how these public programs benefit the majority paying for them.

Albanese deploying the ‘free and fast’ promises of his populist political forebears is a sure indication of election desperation.

They evidently don’t care about the cost of living.

Neither do they seem to care about how government spending is debasing the worker’s dollar, causing inflation, and impacting interest rates.