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October 29, 2025

Triple Zero Outage: Australians Deserve an Independent Inquiry

The government has commissioned ACMA to stage an inquiry, but, as ACMA is part of the failed system, how can it be held to account if it is running the inquiry? Independence is the key here. ACMA's inquiry is not independent.

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Parliament

October 27, 2025

3G Shutdown Backfires — Regional Australia Left Behind

When I'm travelling regional Australia, one of the first things people want to discuss is how their mobile phone reception has deteriorated since the shutdown

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Parliament

October 27, 2025

Holding back regional Australians

When it comes to regional Australia, Labor's minds are made up and their priorities are cuts, neglect and shutting regions down.

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Parliament

October 27, 2025

70 kilometres an hour is not the solution

The economic loss to transport companies and flow-on effect on agricultural and mining companies will absolutely impact on productivity, and it will certainly frustrate mums and dads who simply want to take their kids to school or to sport.

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Parliament

October 9, 2025

Protecting children online - Speech on Motion - 9 October 2025

"..Australians are reeling from the sentence imposed against a person for the sexual abuse of their five-year old daughter at least 19 times, producing 77 files of child abuse material and sending it to a US paedophile"

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Parliament

October 8, 2025

Labor governs for cities, not the regions

As it presently stands, we really don't know how many regional Australians have been affected by triple 0 outages, but our lived experience in the regions is that it happens a lot.

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Parliament

October 8, 2025

She got through to her daughter on Facebook Messenger

Paula, who was playing golf in early August on the Mornington Peninsula when she experienced heart attack symptoms but could not reach triple 0 on her Optus-affiliate service

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Parliament

October 8, 2025

Local government is in peril.

Smaller rural and remote councils face financial sustainability challenges that can seem insurmountable.

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Parliament

October 8, 2025

The buck stops with the minister

This negligent Albanese Labor government allowed another failure to happen on their watch. Clearly Optus is responsible. But the minister is where the buck stops, and that is our point.

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