Hi Sorry to all my International viewers, but this little video rant is directed at my Australian viewers only. And it involves politics. Yes, now as you may know, Uh, this. Saturday September 7th is the Federal Election now.

Normally I wouldn't do a video on something like this, but unfortunately, no less than the future of this country and more, selfishly, perhaps the potential growth of this video blog is at stake this weekend. And unfortunately, it's looking like the Liberals and tonit might actually win this election. And if that happens, this country is rooted in so many ways. from the Mapp tazzy right up to Humpty Doo that don't even want to think about it.

But I'll only talk about one thing: the Internet. As you know, the current Labor government are rolling out the national Broadband Network or NBN which aims to deliver fiber directly to every house and every business in the country, including my house and the lab here. Fantastic. And yes, they're probably going to screw it up in lots of ways.

And yes, it's probably going to cost a buttload of money more than they claim, but at least it is the proper and really only engineering long-term engineering solution. As you know, copper is just not a solution anymore. Fiber is the way to go was way to go 15 20 years ago when they should have done it. but at least they're doing it once right now and they're getting the job done now for Content Creators like me, that opens up a whole new world of possibilities in what type of content I can deliver? How I deliver it and stuff I haven't even thought of yet as a content creator, but it's not just for me, it's for you, your family, your business, and the way you're going to live and work in the future.

It's vitally important that we all get fiber directly to the home or business. But Tony Abbott's batshit crazy plan for our Broadband future involves fiber just to the street node out there, not actually directly to the home or to the business, and to utilize as much of our existing, rotting, aging copper infrastructure as possible. And if that copper infrastructure has to be upgraded as it does for my home, what happens? They're going to replace it with more copper, and their masterful plan in five years time will provide a stunning wait for it. 25 megabits per second download speed? Woohoo! And an unspecified upload speed because you know nobody actually uploads content of the internet, right? This is so and so far behind the current infrastructure in the rest of the world.

even at home using cable. I'm getting 100 megabits per second download and at the lab here I already get 20 megabits per second download. So they want to go and spend 30 odd billion dollars or more to give everyone 25 megabits per second download using existing copper infrastructure. You got to be me.

Ah, this plan is so it's not funny. what this country needs for the future of our communication infrastructure is. fiber to every Point possible. That is the only sensible solution.

And then the bandwidth limits are not dictated by rotting copper. You've got virtually unlimited bandwidth fiber to every node. but that's obvious, right? Everyone knows this Everyone except the Abbott government. And Abbott's fiber to the node solution means big ugly boxes on the street corner the size of a bloody Tardis So this election is all about the future of this country's internet and Communications infrastructure and the way we will all live and work in 5, 10, 20, 30 years, 50 years time.

And if Abbot gets in, we're going to enter the digital. Dark Ages Now I Can understand how people are fed up with the current labor government. I Mean who the hell isn't right? It's just. ah, everything they've done wrong.

But it's important for people to understand what the alternative is and how bad that alternative is. It has actually come down to a choice between the lesser of two evils, and at least one side has got a few very important things right? The other's got nothing right now. I Know this might seem pretty darn obvious to my educated and informed technical audience, but unfortunately, the majority of Australians are just sheeple and they'll vote like sheep. And they'll vote for Tony Abbott.

But even if the sheeple do decide this election and Tony Abbott wins, there is always the Senate who will be able to, uh, block any of the ridiculous Po policies Tony Abbott tries to put through. You know the Senate? It's that huge bit of you know that big voting paper, you gets like a meter long, you open up and you go. What the freig is this? Now the way the Senate voting system works is actually quite good due to the voting spread system they've got in there. It pretty much uh, insures that one seat in every state in the Senate is going to go to one of the minor or a part minor parties or one of The Independents And that's a good thing.

It stops the liberal government or the party in power from getting the balance of power in the Senate so that they can just rubber stab everything all their stupid batshit crazy ideas and pass them straight through. If we if the we have enough Independence and minor parties in the Senate, we can at least have some sensibility and some checks and balances. So everyone's vote in the Senate is going to be vitally important in this election. I think and for the future running of the country Now you have to be very careful who you vote for in the senate.

Make sure you check your preferences. Uh, well, not your preferences, but the preferences of the party or person you're voting for in the Senate to ensure that that vote doesn't go to batshit. Crazy Abbot Now it would be remiss of me if I didn't mention an historic opportunity that we've currently got in the Senate. The Wikileaks party uh is actually running for Senate in various Uh States in Australia and you have the opportunity to vote them into the Senate.

Now, whatever you might think of Julian Assange personally, having a party like the Wikileaks party being voted into the Australian political system, not only will Uh put a spanner in the works of the Australian political system, but it'll also set a precedent worldwide as well. and people stand up and take notice. And quite frankly, that's what politics in every country needs. Flaming hot fear of accountability, burning their fat asses written, spoken, authorized by that crazy Aussie bloke for the I give a about the future of this country party and.