Kay Hull (Riverina, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

We are back to the Keating decision to turn off analog phones without an alternative for rural and regional Australia. It was an absolute disgrace that the people in rural and regional Australia who had fought so hard and had built their own towers—councils right across Australia had built their receivers and the towers at great expense to themselves—found that their analog service was going to be shut down in 1999.

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