There is a curious circus that public discourse descends into whenever the NBN is paraded about by the Australian Coalition or Opposition Parties. Which mob is spending money on rockets and sharks and which mob are the clowns – we’ll leave that for the public to speculate. Nonetheless, someone is funding this circus – the public purse. So we can only expect the kind of political argy-bargy that such an undertaking would invoke – and the level of public scrutiny – and rightly so – about the promise of the National Broadband Network.