Worse still, when asked ‘when will that gap fee get to zero?’ - as the Albanese Government had promised – the Department said the out-of-pocket cost of seeing the doctor will probably go UP.

“Labor’s plan to punish Australia’s hardest workers and attack their unrealised superannuation gains was shocking from the start and never should have happened.

I am also proud to be the first ever Opposition MP to hold Regional Communications as a Shadow portfolio. The Nationals fought hard for this new Shadow portfolio because Regional Communications needs continuous focus as essential infrastructure

"..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"

Sadly it took the tragic deaths of 4 Australians due to Optus’ second outage last month for the Albanese Government to bring legislation into the Parliament to properly establish the Custodian.

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.