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Paul Fletcher

May 2024

It seems to have started with Minister Ed Husic meeting with PsiQuantum in late 2022 and again in the Silicon Valley in early 2023.

So many things wrong with Labor’s one huge bet on PsiQuantum

Venture capital investors typically place many best across multiple different companies and technologies. The government is backing one technology and company.

September 2020

NBN has become an important national asset.

Broadband turnaround keeps moving past Labor's sterile fibre wars

New investments in the NBN will connect about 8 million homes and businesses around Australia to gigabit speed broadband services.

May 2020

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has been arguing about the changes made to Labor's NBN policy since Malcolm Turnbull released his memoirs.

Only a mug would believe in Rudd's NBN nirvana

The former prime minister claims his expensive all-fibre NBN would be virtually finished but, if it had proceeded, many Australians couldn't have worked from home.

April 2020

Facebook and Google are being forced into a code of conduct with Australian media companies.

Why the government is moving to tame the digital duopoly

Google and Facebook have fabulously profitable business models, but it is eroding the supply of journalism in Australia. It is time they paid their way.

March 2020

Paul Fletcher is Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts.

Minister insists NBN can handle the working from home surge

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher says the network can cope with 100 per cent more traffic during the day, and that it is holding up well to increased demand.

October 2019

NBN has come under fire from Telstra.

Telstra should blame their Labor deal

The telco makes lower profits from broadband -- and consumers are better off. But that is what the company signed up for.

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