Please provide examples of the Liberal party having more extreme nanny state policies than the labor party.
1. Collecting meta data.
2. Anti terrorism laws.
3. Courts may draw an adverse inference from a defendant remaining silent.
4. Government being responsible for the actions of individuals (such as being responsible for the actions of insulation stallers that are shonks)
5. Banning the burqua
And your assertion that nationalisation is the only choice is laughable. Every other country in the world seems to get along just fine without nationalising the provision of internet services.
1. Why didn't Telstra or Optus or IInet build an NBN?
You must have missed the part where Optus and a few others volunteered to build broadband networks, WHERE THEY COULD MAKE MONEY.
If you understood Economics I could explain to you why 'nationalising' the NBN was the proper thing to do.
ALL telecommunications in this country is 'nationalised'. The simple reason is that the market for telecommunications in this country is a natural monopoly.
The Labor party is literally controlled and populated by the union movement, yet you say the Liberal party is the one controlled by vested interests?
1. You obviously have a very shallow understanding of politics.
2. The union movement advocates for workers rights... To fair pay, to fair conditions, to the benefit of ALL WORKERS.
3. Abbott keeps trumpeting that advocating for workers rights should be outlawed. Howard already tried that and got kicked out on his arse.
4. Well may there be bad apples in the Union movement but you could say that for ANY organisation.
Like Abbott, you keep pointing the finger at Labor. You are ignoring the fact that Abbott is poison.
He always has been. His policies are just a reflection of the shallow individual that he is.
Worse than that, he is surrounded by complete morons Hockey, Bishop, Dutton, Morriscum, Pyne...the list goes on.