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MEDIA

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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Parliament

October 8, 2025

Optus triple zero failure on Labor's watch

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!

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Parliament

October 7, 2025

Qantas to close the Mildura base

This isn't just about workers; it's about connectivity, livability and the future of regional Australia. Qantas needs to stop retreating into the big cities and start looking after the nation that gave it its wings.‍

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Parliament

September 4, 2025

Metropolitan & regional Australians are not in the same boat

I moved on Monday that the Albanese government be held to account for failing to meet a legislated deadline to table its response to a key regional telecommunications report. This is yet another example of Labor's lack of focus on regional Austr

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Parliament

September 2, 2025

Food Charity Cuts

My concern is not just that this decision is about prioritising larger, centralised organisations over smaller, local ones, but also that Labor fails to see the needs of people in the regions—and, in my case, the north-west of Victoria.

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Parliament

August 25, 2025

Farmers are invisible to the member for Chisholm

I notice the motion doesn't quote the line parroted by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy that renewables are the cheapest form of energy. No, now it's the bubblegum phrase 'the better future Australians voted for'.

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Parliament

August 25, 2025

Women's Economic Security

For more than three years now the Prime Minister has repeated the mantra 'nobody held back, nobody left behind'. But Wendy has been utterly left behind by the combination of state and federal Labor governments in regional Victoria.

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