Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not aware of any alternatives. As I said in my first answer, nowhere in the Labor policy platform at the last election, nor in the ambiguity with which they're talking to Australian people around the next election's policy, do they mention mobile black spot funding. There's big talk around the NBN but nothing about place based, localised solutions for rural and regional communities, nothing about the internet of things on-farm and nothing about those who don't live in major regional capitals, like Newcastle, like Geelong and like Ballarat and Bendigo—their two favourite regional capitals, which they are happy to invest in. If you live outside of those two, you get absolutely nothing. So the greatest risk to connecting the regions and to growing the regions through digital connectivity is electing Albanese and his best mates: the Greens and Adam Bandt.