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• The National Broadband Strategy Programs
• The National Broadband Strategy Implementation Group
• Jurisdictional Action Plans
• Australia's National Broadband Strategy

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Australia's National Broadband Strategy has been developed in partnership between the Australian Government and state and territory governments. All state and territory governments, with the exception of Victoria, endorsed the Strategy at the Online Council meeting on 26 September 2003. The Strategy was released by the former Minister at the Australian Telecommunications Conference on March 3 2004.    

The National Broadband Strategy provides a policy framework for broadband development in Australia agreed by all levels of government. It is a mechanism to inform future policy development in broadband and coordinate activities across government. It sets a number of objectives for broadband development in Australia.

The coordinated approach through the national strategy will ensure that government investment in broadband supports regional priorities and the specific needs of key sectors including health and education. This will lead to improved broadband infrastructure across the nation, ensuring that all Australians have fair and reasonable access to broadband and its benefits, particularly with regards to price and location barriers.

The implementation of the National Broadband Strategy is being overseen by the National Broadband Strategy Implementation Group.

An Action Plan has been developed to accompany the Strategy. The NBSIG Action Plan is a dynamic document outlining the activities and initiatives being undertaken by all governments to implement the Strategy. It outlines the approach to measuring progress and outcomes from the implementation of the Strategy and present this information on an annual basis. Each jurisdiction is preparing an Action Plan.

Three major funding programs form part of the Australian Government's contribution to the Action Plan for the National Broadband Strategy. The Coordinated Communications Infrastructure Fund (CCIF), the Demand Aggregation Broker Program and the Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme (HiBIS) have been designed to complement each other.

A major emphasis of these funding programs is to provide access to affordable broadband services in regional Australia. Government services, the community and sectors such as education and health are also being targeted for broadband development.

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