Thursday, 1 August 2024

Clyde North mobile phone coverage

Brad BATTIN (Berwick) (10:38): Residents of Clyde North have been neglected for far too long when it comes to Labor, and one of the biggest focuses down there is their mobile phone reception. I thought it was quite distasteful this week when I saw two Labor MPs out there on their social media, big smiles, to show that there is a new mobile tower coming up in Clyde North when for a decade the community has been calling for this tower and the only reason it was not built was because of Labor’s state planning laws. It was not to do with the feds; it was not to do with Telstra. It was to do with the state planning laws that prevented it. And if they want more evidence of that, we met with the council, who had to block these towers getting built because of the ridiculous state planning laws. So to come out now and brag a decade later that something that should have been delivered as an essential service 10 years ago is now getting done is an absolute mockery of that community.