Vikki Campion: Regional Aussies’ 000 connection lost as Greens deliver blow
If you ever needed any proof of the Greens’ hatred of regional Australia, look no further than the voting record of a Senate inquiry into the 3G shutdown, which will leave country callers unable to ring police, fire or ambulance for help.
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If you ever needed any proof of the Greens’ hatred of regional Australia, look no further than the voting record of a Senate inquiry into the 3G shutdown, which will leave country callers unable to ring police, fire or ambulance for help.
The impending shutdown of 3G, which Telstra will switch off from June 30 this year, means more than 700,000 4G phones will no longer be able to connect to the triple zero service. In our experience, the “upgrade” of towers already means dangerous country roads, which once had one bar of 3G, now suffer zero bars of 5G, while telcos tell us we are not worse off.
When One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts proposed an inquiry to investigate how the 3G network closure would impact regional access to 000, as well as regional health-compromised and elderly Australians who use medical alert devices on the 3G network and farms and regional industry whose equipment relies on 3G, it was met with Greens opposition.
The billionaire picks on both sides of the political spectrum – Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet and Simon Holmes a Court’s Climate-200 funded Senator David Pocock – supported it, but the Greens, once again, showed their lack of concern for regional Australians.
Former Green Lydia Thorpe saw the injustice of it, as did former Liberal David Van, unfairly ousted LNP Senator Gerard Rennick, and senior Labor hands Senator Glenn Sterle and Anthony Chisholm.
Regional health outcomes are worse than the city, they are more exposed to natural disasters, and their roads are longer, more isolated and dangerous, yet only the 11 Greens would deny them the right to call for help when they need it.
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