The difference is division

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-26/cassidy-laying-down-the-cudgels-and-debating-the-policy/4650944

"The Opposition embraced of an alternative National Broadband Network. That much publicised event gave the electorate a clear choice. Labor's Rolls Royce version with all the funding implications or the Coalition's more modest improvement on today's standards with a lesser price tag."

I object to this adjective Rolls Royce because it implies opulent over-expenditure for flippant reasons.

The difference between the two policies, which should decide people's choice is that, if you stop the fibre-optic cable at the node and require people to pay for the connection to the home, then there will be those who can afford this expense, most of whom vote Liberal, and those who can't. The Liberal policy is divisive because those who can't afford it simply won't have this necessity.

You can't really expect anything better from a party that absolutely thrives on divisions within society and then runs around screaming about class warfare, deliberately to muddy the waters, in the hopefully vane hope that people will be confused by such oxymoronic utterances into thinking its actually the other mob doing. Not big on intelligence either.

The fact is that Australia is astoundingly prosperous and can easily afford to give all citizens high speed fibre-optic cable based internet access.