<div>So the next obvious question: what does this mean for policies such as the filter and the NBN?</div>
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<div>Sunday's NBN announcement and the rush to get it completed quickly was a fairly obvious gambit by Rudd to distract from all the mining and poll results chatter. You could be cynical and suggest that a couple of billion dollars was thrown at Telstra on the weekend simply to influence the media cycle for the week.</div>
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<div>Would a new leader feel bound by these policies?</div>