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
Smaller rural and remote councils face financial sustainability challenges that can seem insurmountable.
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.
Without triple 0, you don't get a firefighter or firefighting support. It's highly likely you'll die or suffer catastrophic injuries. Our job in opposition is to hold this government to account, and four lives have been lost—four!
