Finally Australia gets some good news. The media is the bearer of light this day, whilst so much doom is still prevalent in global financial markets any news that is positive is bound to bring light to even the darkest of souls. One small step in the future of Australian Communications has been announced, we will one day have fibre running into our homes to service the internet addictions of millions of citizens across  our fair land, so that we can keep the crown of the world’s biggest down-loaders of copyright material per capita. Sweden has been crippled with tough anti P2P laws or so the legislators would have us believe but the legacy of  The Pirate Bay shall long live through the optical ventricles and arteries of Australian leechers.

The great Australian battler shall persevere, even when arteries are clogged from the fat of  front bench political censor. We want our nodes clean from the heavy lard of dictatorial censorship, to be sure, but even if such grandiose government schemes become a part of Australian legislative policy, we the people shall find a way to circumvent the draconian law dictated to us from the executive chairs of Big Media. And with a 100mbit internet connection anything will be possible and anonymous proxies will surely have a large clientele from the land down under.

We now just have to endure the wait and this is where our enthusiasm begins to wane. It just can’t come soon enough. The average Australian has become weary from promises that fail to deliver and the laying out of tens of thousands of kilometres of fibre ostensibly gives rise to the feeling that we may indeed be waiting for a long time yet. The wait will undoubtedly test the cynicism of even the most austere optimist, right up until the first FTTP bill arrives in our inbox.