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Gillard pauses to reflect on NBN victory

Prime Minister Julia Gillard this afternoon invited Australians to reflect on the significance of Labor’s National Broadband Network project going ahead, with its potential to deliver equivalent telecommunications pricing for the bush with metropolitan Australia.

The revelation this afternoon that rural independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor will support Labor to form government means the NBN is likely to go ahead, with both citing the flagship project as one of the key reasons they decided to support Labor above the Coalition.

One aspect of the deal between Labor and the duo is that wholesale pricing equivalence will apply between rural areas and the city.

“People should take a moment to have the force and significance of this to settle into their minds,” Gillard told journalists in a press conference this afternoon.

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