As an IT lecturer I need to conduct online lectures and tutorials in the form of live web casts and audio visual presentations and recordings. ADSL is reasonable for most download operations yet it is asymmetrical with the download channel being much faster than the upload channel.

However when web casting the major part of the content is uploaded to the any students logged on to the session and thus their download speed is then limited by my upload speed. With uploading recordings in most cases the time required is often more than what it takes to make the recording.

I would imagine that many other teachers and educators would find themselves in a similar situation as education continually increases in online content.

Faster speeds would allow a much better quality of delivery of online lectures. This would enable a more responsive interaction from participants that we are not able to achieve without it.

The sooner we can get high speed broadband the better.

Hear Hear.
I support the NBN. I think you are absolutely right and it will no doubt improve the standards of education. It will also allow farmers in rural areas of Australia to provide live video feed of stock for sale, doctors to perform medical emergency procedures remotely via HD video link, schools around Australia to have a much better interactive learning experience, and businesses to thrive.
For the regular user, it means the ability to store more data on virtual servers, hook in to more HD ITV channels, and of course faster all round internet experiences.

Now, without getting political, it is a shame that the NBN could be stopped on Aug 21st if the Liberals get in to power. I am usually a Liberal voter, but I am swinging to Labor to support the NBN. (I don't want to get political, but the truth is the Liberals will scrap the NBN).

I guess if I say any more it will sound as I am getting too political. That is not the entire point of this I guess. Go NBN.