Rowan Ramsey (Grey, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise today to table a petition on behalf of the good residents of Caltowie in the mid north of South Australia.

The petition read as follows—

To the Honourable The Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives

This petition of citizens of Caltowie, Jamestown and surrounding areas draws to the attention of the House: Improved reception for Internet and Phone Service to enable local business to operate more efficiently.

We therefore ask the House to: Implement a strategy that will provide a Receiver and Booster Aerial to be erected on top of the Caltowie Silos, located in the Township of Caltowie. This will boost our Mobile Reception and Wireless Broadband Signal whereupon instigating an improvement in communications.

from 89 citizens

Petition received.

In the short time available to me I might just say that the government of course is investing $100 million in mobile phone towers around Australia, a program that has been sadly missing over the last six years. Mr Deputy Speaker Scott, you would remember that the previous Howard administration put money into extending the mobile network across Australia, that we left a $2 billion fund for the expansion of electronic services across Australia to meet new challenges, and of course this was vacuumed up by the Rudd government to be put into the NBN, which has led to some problems. (Time expired)