From what i hear, the government is investing $23b in the NBN and will get a return on that. We are meant to be getting 1Gbps speeds too. It won't slow down because of the architechture unless they implement that horrible mandatory filter.
But the money could be spent on mroe important things.. hospitals, for example... they are a disgrace at the moment.
I only voted Labor for this exact reason the "NBN" nobody knows what is going to happen atm. If gillard does not get in it will be a huge dissapointment for Australia as everybody knows abott will do nothing in his first term of office. I currently run 8000 kbps and 512 upload I could just imagine how good this 1 gb network could be. Thats just my 2 cents worth