Inquiry considers ways internet can boost regional jobs.
A Victorian parliamentary inquiry is looking to increase ways businesses use the internet to boost jobs in country areas. The cross-party Rural and Regional Committee is touring regional cities to hear from local businesses about remote working and e-commerce. Nationals' MP Paul Weller says there is the potential to increase employment in country Victoria by using new technologies. "As the broadband is rolled out across rural and regional Victoria we want the business communities in rural and regional Victoria to take full advantage and to grow their businesses which grow employment in rural and regional areas," he said. He says the inquiry wants to maximise the benefits of new technologies for country businesses. "It can actually be a greater productivity, when people don't have to travel to and from work," he said. "It reduces the needs for infrastructure, be it rail or road, for people to travel on and people are more productive when they're not actually traveling to and from work each day."(abc news) ummm.. someone should have a word in turnbulls ear. someone from his own party talking up the NBN ? (the nats and the libs are the same thing) the nationals member calls it "broadband'' but we know what he means.
