TOPICS: ACCC inquiry into regional telecommunications, mandatory domestic roaming, mobile connectivity investment, Labor’s gambling bill
“Regional Australians have put up with substandard telecommunications for far too long. They face natural disasters and the tyranny of distance getting to health services. Mandatory domestic roaming is needed.
“Yet again, as with net zero and a host of Labor’s other virtue signals to the world, the Albanese Labor Government is throwing our economy and farmers under a bus to compete in a red-and-green tape beauty contest nobody genuinely wants to win.
"Labor’s track record is to put productive agriculture last, and now they are putting their zero agenda ahead of Australia's food security & regional communities through subsidy-backed wind and solar projects, and destructive transmission lines.
TOPICS: Assault allegation against Special Envoy for Defence, Veterans and Northern Australia, Prime Minister’s leadership, One Nation proposal on ISIS sympathisers, ABC editorial policy
New industry data shows that of the 12.9 gigawatts of wind generation backed under Labor's Capacity Investment Scheme, only 788 megawatts has reached financial close and is actually progressing - barely six per cent.
TOPICS: ALP conference position on Palestine, Prime Minister’s leadership style, future of Coalition
The Leader of The Nationals asked whether the Albanese Government intended to argue that Australia belonged in the lower tier. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade agreed the lower tier was available - but we missed out.
"Mallee residents are tired of political gobbledygook and they are not fools, they are tired of the smoke and mirrors, and tired of being told not to believe their own experiences."