April 2, 2020

Opinion Articles

More Towers – $200m needed to plug the gap in rural telecommunications

Mobile communications are critical for farmers, not just for running a business, but also for the health, education and safety of our families. WAFarmers has been advocating for better coverage for the state’s farmers since the launch of the old GSM network 27 years ago. Since then, over 300 towers have been built across the state’s farming belt, many of them subsidised through state and federal funding.Today we could not imagine operating without the mobile

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Guns Stores – Good Outcome for Farmers

The weekend advertisement criticising the Premier run by the Shooting Industry Foundation Australia (SIFA) was plain dumb, and one particularly stupid line (Premier, rein it in before we are all sorry!) copped a well-deserved rebuke from an unimpressed McGowan. With a thoughtless comment, a clueless peak body run out of Victoria managed, overnight, to neuter public debate around the merits of the gun store closures. Hopefully SIFA got the message to stay out of our

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