Portfolio Media Releases
Abbott's cuts mean Western Australia will get a second rate NBN
Shadow Minister for Communications Jason Clare, Shadow Assistant Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland and Federal Member for Perth Alannah MacTiernan today met with Western Australians who will miss out on the real NBN and will have to rely on a second rate old copper... read more...
Build the NBN, don't wreck it
Shadow Minister for Communications Jason Clare today called on the Abbott Government to build the National Broadband Network instead of wrecking it. The Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network today tabled its interim report into the Government's Strategic... read more...
Experts agree that Australia Network is vital
Three of Australia's top businessmen, including the Prime Minister's own key business adviser, and a top Australian diplomat have joined the campaign to stop the Abbott Government breaking another election promise by cutting the Australia Network. The Australia Network is a... read more...
SBS cuts will hurt Australia's Ethnic Communities
In last week's Senate Estimates hearings, the SBS Managing Director Michael Ebeid could not guarantee that Abbott Government cuts to the SBS budget would not affect SBS language services. "I would find it very difficult to imagine being able to absorb any material... read more...
ABC cuts will hurt Regional Australia
In last night's Senate Estimates hearings, ABC Managing Director Mark Scott could not guarantee that cuts to the ABC's budget would not affect ABC Regional Radio services. MARK SCOTT: ...I can give no guarantees that any services would be spared, including rural services if... read more...
Abbott's NBN Broken Promise leaves Tasmanian's Stranded
In an embarrassing spectacle in Tasmania today, Prime Minister Tony Abbott dodged question after question on his broken promise to roll out superfast broadband across the state. In a farcical press conference with Tasmanian Liberal Leader Will Hodgman – a big supporter of... read more...
Even Tasmanian Liberal Leader wants Labor's NBN
Tasmanian Liberal Leader Will Hodgman has admitted the Federal Liberal Government's betrayal of the people of Tasmania on the NBN could cost him the Tasmanian election. At a press conference he was caught on a boom microphone speaking to one of his MPs about Malcolm... read more...
272,000 Australians tell Abbott they want Labor's NBN
Shadow Minister for Communications Jason Clare today presented to Parliament the signatures of 272,000 Australians who want the Liberal Party to build Labor's NBN instead of the second rate network they are proposing. Before the election, the Liberal Party promised to build a... read more...
Tasmanians the latest victims of Liberal Lies
Tasmanians are the latest to be deceived by a broken promise from the Liberal Party. Before the election Malcolm Turnbull said a Liberal Government would honour existing contracts to roll Fibre-to-the-Premises broadband out right across Tasmania. He said: "the alternative... read more...
Tony Abbott about to break another election promise
Tony Abbott's attack on the ABC is a premeditated plan to break another election promise. Today it has been revealed that Tony Abbott plans to cut $223 million from the ABC's budget. Before the election Tony Abbott promised hand on heart "there will be no cut to the... read more...
