John Forrest (Mallee, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. It is a question from a very concerned local member about digital television. I refer the Prime Minister to his government’s digital television switchover timetable and the fact that the electorate of Mallee is the national guinea pig with a switchover scheduled to occur in June this year. Will the Prime Minister guarantee that nobody in the electorate of Mallee will be left without television reception after switchover occurs and that communities such as Ouyen, Walpeup, Underbool, Murrayville and Robinvale in my electorate will have adequate digital signal strength? Will the Prime Minister also guarantee that the local news service out of Mildura will be available to my constituents at the same time as terrestrial delivery should the government elect to utilise a satellite delivery system for those areas unable to be serviced by a terrestrially broadcast digital signal?

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