[grolimpio]

I wish it was just a joke... over here, the same politicians will tell you that "clean coal" is the future and the solution to "clean" the planet (no, it's not another dirty joke).

Actually, our current Prime Minister brought a "nice big hunk of black coal" to the House of Representatives one day (before he became the Prime Minister).

Back to technology, the company responsible for our national broadband (NBN Co), has bought 21 million metres of copper cable (enough to wrap around Australia one and a half times). That's our "high-speed" broadband network.

But hey, one of our previous prime ministers still thinks that high-speed Internet is to watch porn only, so there was no need to replace the old and inefficient copper with fibre.

At this point, I don't know if this is an Old Man Government or an Old Man Country, because enough people vote for these politicians, so they stay in power.