Broadband is the new weapon.

I told you so. If you read my blog of a month ago, then you are globally up to speed.

Gillard championed better communications infrastructure for rural areas based on introducing a AU$43 billion high-speed optical fiber national broadband network. It was a major factor in the decision by the independent lawmakers to back Gillard.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independent lawmakers threw their support behind her center-left Labor Party on Tuesday, ending two weeks of uncertainty left by national elections that ended on a knife-edge.The opposition had promised a smaller, slower AU$6 billion network with a range of technologies including optical fiber, wireless and DSL.

Gillard’s big broadband idea plan won and she will lead the Australia Government.

The republicans should launch such broadband plan for America. It would simultaneously put Americans back to work and put America back first in communications.

It is the space race of the 21^st century.

Information is power and communication speed is the new weapon of power.