The Albanese Labor government has quietly launched a proposal to slash the default speed limit on regional roads from 100 kilometres per hour to as low as 70 kilometres.
I call on the Minister for Communications to take responsibility for this botched shutdown.
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.
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
When it comes to regional Australia, Labor's minds are made up and their priorities are cuts, neglect and shutting regions down.
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.
"..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"
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.
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
