Leader of The Nationals David Littleproud and Member for Mallee, Dr Anne Webster, say the Optus Triple-Zero outages highlight the need for guaranteed Universal Service Obligation (USO)

. Labor’s aggressive rollout and railroading regional communities is why farmers in tractors chased the Prime Minister out of Ballarat in late August, and why Labor ministers are getting hostile receptions in regional communities.”

When mining occurs interstate on pastoral country the post-mining impacts are less pronounced as what we have seen at Douglas and Ouyen, and potentially at Dooen and other mineral sands prospects.

the Government can compel landowners and homeowners to step aside and let a miner use that resource. Some Mallee farmers are facing losing access to their homes for 40 years.

The Albanese Labor Government are behaving poorly, previously signalling Vietnamese workers would be available, but now postponing the Arrangement leaving horticultural businesses scrambling to find workers.

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“The PM might have published this nonsense so he can brag at the UN General Assembly and ‘Climate Week’ in the US next week, but the facts simply must be called out for what they are."

"Labor shows no respect for those that live and work in the regions, trying to play regional Australians for fools. Labor misled regional Australians about UOMO but the only ‘universal’ thing about it is it is full of black holes"