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.
favourably mentions non-economic demographic groups like women, students or specific age groups