“Australia should be preparing for the eventual end of the resources boom by moving towards an innovative economy”.

Professor Smarr wants a nationwide roll-out of a fibre-optic network and believes that installing campus networks with speeds of up to 10 gigabytes a second could be extended to homes and businesses.

* I think I read the comic book of superhero K Rudd 24/7 and it had these communication speeds. One day we shall see this implemented in the real world of OZ, maybe in the year 2020.