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Fiber optics are the future of the internet, the equivalent of telephone services of the past, something that here in Australia everybody agrees is a right to have run to your home or business. However, the current, conservative, Australian government insists that public infrastructure only provide fiber to the node, (the corner) so that residential and commercial users who want fiber to their location must pay for the copper link between the corner and their home to be replaced.