The previous Coalition Government established a standing $2 billion Communications Fund to ensure perpetual upgrades to new technologies and services to regional Australia as they became available – in essence ‘future prooﬁng’ regional Australia in the fast-paced ﬁeld of technology advances A central plank of our telecommunications plan for regional Australia is reinstating the Communications Fund, to ensure that regional telecommunications services – and the families, businesses and entire communities rely on them – are not left with antiquated technologies and/or services and allowed to fall behind the rest of Australia and the world.
about technology and infrastructure, e.g. the importance of modernisation of industry, or supportive of public spending on infrastructure/tech