Scrap the NBN, says Abbott

However, in his Budget reply speech tonight, Abbot said though the Coalition supported better broadband services, it wasn't "reckless enough to spend upwards of $50 billion on a National Broadband Network without a cost/benefit analysis."

The construction of the Brisbane rail loop

"That $50 billion could fully fund the construction of the Brisbane rail loop, to illustrate, the duplication of the Pacific Highway, the Melbourne to Brisbane inland rail link, the extension of the M4 to Strathfield, and 20 major new teaching hospitals as then as the $6 billion that the Coalition has proposed to spend on better broadband," the Opposition Leader stated, referring the unpopular broadband plan his side of politics floated while last year's Federal Election.