By breaking his election promise to deliver 25 megabits per second to all Australians by 2016, Malcolm Turnbull no longer has a voter mandate to proceed with any new or altered plan without first taking that to the next/2016 election.

We demand that he not enter negotiations with Telstra or other corporations nor lock Australia into a permanently binding contract with Telstra (or others) for which Australians have not voted upon.

This fundamentally new plan that he has announced to deliver a mix of 'fibre-to-the-node', 'fibre-to-the-basement' and to use the existing 'hybrid fibre coaxil' (HFC) cable network (which covers 1/3 of virtually all Australian homes) to deliver his new plan by 2019 for virtually the same cost as 'fibre-to-the-premises' has not been approved by a single Australian voter and he has literally no mandate to do so.

There must be a fresh debate around the National Broadband Network before Malcolm Turnbull proceeds to lock Australia into a plan for which it has not voted upon. He cannot promise one thing in opposition and then do another thing when he gets elected, he must be held to account for this lie.

If he is certain his new 'mixed technology model' is the model Australia should follow for the National Broadband Network then he should take his fundamentally new plans to the Australian people before he locks us permanently into his new plan.

I cant emphasize enough how important it is that we get a chance to have our say on his new plan before he simply tries to rush it through parliament and before we know it; he will have entered negotiations with Telstra and locked us permanently and irrecovably into his new plan which he doesn't even have a mandate to do.

Is Australia a dictatorship or a democracy? We don't deserve a bait and switch on one of the single greatest pieces of infrastructure we and our kids will depend on for decades to come. Do we just pay lip service to what a democracy is or do we actually get to have our say on this? We do not elect parliamentarions to rule over us, we elect them to listen to us.

Lastly, how can we ever trust him again?