Small communities in the wider Canberra region are urging candidates not to forget them. Thousands of people live close to the capital across the border in New South Wales. Despite their proximity to the ACT, they claim they do not enjoy the same access to services or political attention.
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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.