On Monday, August 5, Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph made a controversial font page with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's picture headlined: Finally you now have the chance to KICK THIS MOB OUT.

Mr Murdoch followed the controversy with another sensational twitter post: Oz politics! We all like ideal of NBN, especially perfect for Foxtel. But first how can it be financed in present situation?

Mr Rudd now gets to the bottom of the media frenzy against him. He said that Mr Murdoch is bent to destroy the Australian Labor Party because the party's policy on NBN threatens Mr Murdoch's Foxtel "cash cow".

"He doesn't really like us and would like to give us the old heave ho and get his mate Mr Abbott in. It's a free country. He can do that if that's what he wishes through a free media."

"The bottom line is it's for others to ask the question why Mr Murdoch really doesn't want the national broadband network to be connected to everyone's home and everyone's small business premises. Does he sense it represents a commercial challenge to Foxtel, which is a major cash cow for his company or not? But I'd rather hear from him on those questions or hear from his corporation."

"He's directly opposed our plan for a national broadband network. He says it should not be provided free to people's homes and to people's small business. That's a matter for him," Mr Rudd said through an interview with ABC Radio.

The News Corp Australia, publisher for Daily Telegraph was prompt to answer Mr Rudd's allegation through an official statement released by its spokesman with Australia Financial review.

"Any suggestion that the editorial position of our newspapers is based upon the commercial interests of Foxtel demonstrates a complete ignorance of both our business and of Foxtel. The general News business would benefit from faster national broadband speeds and Foxtel will benefit as it will be able to offer more choice and new services."

"Furthermore, Foxtel faces broadband competition with or without a national broadband network - of any type or speed. Our mastheads have, quite rightly, scrutinised a massive piece of government spending which is devoid of a cost-benefit analysis. But that does not equate to being against faster internet speeds," the spokesman's statement said.

The Australian Labor Party's policy on NBN is that it will connect fibre cables to the majority of homes while the Coalition's policy will connect fibre to street corners and use existing copper wire for the last leg of the connection. Coalition's seemed more affordable than that of Labor's.

Labor and Coalition both plan to get funding for NBN off government's budget. There will only be a minimal difference in price with the interest paid on the borrowings amounting to $750 million over four years.