00:00Little more than half an hour from Canberra, Valia Palmer's chooks have plenty of room
00:10to roam.
00:11The relative isolation might seem attractive, but in this part of the world a scrambled internet
00:17connection is common.
00:19We are, I suppose in this community, lucky because we're high on a hill.
00:25Lately a local fox has been eating into the profit margins and the gate is shut to some
00:31possible solutions.
00:33Having more internet would allow us to do things with camera surveillance, even sound
00:39surveillance, all sorts of things that would have a tremendous impact.
00:43It's not a unique issue.
00:45In nearby Womboin, both the NBN and 5G are hard to come by.
00:51Many of the residents here have defaulted to using Starlink now, which is a reasonable
00:56service but it does come with much higher costs than any NBN service.
01:01Before the campaign, Labor promised it would finish the NBN and provide fibre to the node
01:06connections to 94% of the fixed line network.
01:10The local Labor MP wants regional areas included.
01:14We deserve access to high speed connectivity for business, for school, to stay connected.
01:25Snaking westward out of Canberra through the electorate of Riverina is one of the most notorious
01:31roads in New South Wales.
01:33Thousands of drivers use the Barton Highway every day, but deaths on the road are all too
01:39common, including as recently as the Easter long weekend.
01:43Unfortunately the sad reality is that if you live in this region you end up knowing someone
01:48that's either been injured or killed on that road.
01:50The first stage of a duplication opened last year, but the second of five stages remains
01:57in the planning phase.
01:58Stephanie Helm is anxious to keep the project from withering on the vine.
02:03It's kind of become a bit of a multi-generational battle for my family.
02:07My dad was campaigning for it in the 90s and here I am still campaigning for it.
02:11So I hope my daughter's not doing the same thing when she's my age.
02:15And the man most likely to be her MP after the election was once the minister responsible.
02:21The duplication of the Barton Highway is happening.
02:24It's a rolling process.
02:25It's like the Bruce Highway in Queensland, working towards it, stretch by stretch.
02:30Back in Eden-Monaro, voters in the border town of Queenbeyan can tell they're not in Canberra,
02:37especially when they're unwell.
02:39I think Liberal will be cutting the health system around and I just can't bear it being
02:46cut more than it is.
02:47Sometimes we do miss out on some of the services.
02:50A great example is mental health services here.
02:53We have to go to Goulburn.
02:55A reminder, not all parts of the capital region were created equal.
03:00We have to go to L Winter.
03:03Yeah, I never heard, not all parts of the capital region were created equal.
03:05So let's go.
03:07I began preserving the world and me, some of the I have up to get to.
03:10I have to come back to front of the capital pulls and structures.
03:12The Ol'i will be enlarged by the capital.
03:13At theladen之前, although then I don't see that the term Kathleen is aucuneter.
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