Seems
whatever our neigbour to the west, the National Party’s Barnaby
Joyce, touches turns to dross……
The
Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 2019:
A phone tower that
Barnaby Joyce fought for ended up on the northern NSW property of long-time
friend and mining baron Gina Rinehart, who gets an annual fee to host the
tower. Locals are baffled why the tower was put there over another location, as
it's plagued with reception problems.
The Northern Daily
Leader reports that
Kingstown's community in Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce's New England electorate
campaigned hard for the tower, switched on two weeks ago, to be co-located with
a police and emergency services tower at the highest point in the district.
But it was built instead
at Sundown Valley Pastoral Company, bought by Ms Rinehart's pastoral arm
Hancock Prospecting in August last year. Landowners are paid a yearly fee by
telecommunications companies to have towers placed on their property.
Kingstown resident Jeff
Condren led the charge for a tower to be funded by the federal government's
Mobile Blackspot Program and called it an "epic fail".
"Now that the tower
has been in operation for several weeks it's evident the community concerns
relating to the location and the service was well-justified," he said.
"Service levels
drop to nothing just a couple of kilometres in any direction.....
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