Lisa Chesters (Bendigo, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

comes to telecommunications. There's no new money for mobile phone blackspots—not a single dollar extra for mobile phone blackspots. We are talking about the Bendigo electorate, where we get maybe one every three years. At that rate, under this government's model, we will never fix the mobile phone blackspot problem in Central Victoria.

There is no new money for the NBN rollout. So people in Central Victoria who are being crippled by crap fibre-to-the-node technology will continue to be so. There are new TAFE cuts, with $170 million cut from TAFE. And $15.5 million is to be cut from Bendigo schools. This government has failed again.

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