There is enormous demand for high quality, reliable broadband service in regional Australia. But despite years of … planning and promises, significant action to improve access to broadband services has not yet taken place in regional Australia … schedule. This paper explores the need for better broadband in regional Australia and outlines the failure of the NBN to …

while ensuring that the ways insiders and special interest groups can extract monopoly rents are limited. Improved skills … technical change. Workers whose skills fall too far behind risk facing dimmer wage and job prospects. Could regulation aim to …