The Hon Paul Fletcher MP

The Morrison Government has welcomed the release of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman’s (TIO) Annual Report 2019-20.

We need Australian stories on our screens. It’s important to Australia’s cultural identity – and, with the production sector employing 25,000 people, it’s important economically too.

The Australian Government is supporting Australian screen content by simplifying regulations and injecting $53 million into the development and production of local film and television as part of the 2020-21 Federal Budget.

The Morrison Government is investing almost $30 million to improve the allocation and management of spectrum and trial 5G use across different industry sectors.

The National Gallery, the National Library and Australia’s other national cultural institutions will receive an additional $22.9 million in the Federal Budget to support their activities during a continuing decline in revenue…

The Morrison Government has announced $19.5 million for NBCUniversal’s Universal Studio Group to produce three high-end scripted television series in Australia under the Federal Government’s Location Incentive program.

Thanks to COVID, 2020 has been the year of working and studying from home, of Zoom and Skype and Teams and Webex and BlueJeans and many other videoconferencing apps.

Around eight million Australian homes will have access to ultra-fast broadband speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) following an upgrade to the National Broadband Network (NBN).

When COVID-19 came along and millions of Australians switched overnight to working and studying from home, they really needed good broadband.

In Australia’s hour of need, the national broadband network delivered.

The Morrison Government welcomes today’s release of NBN Co’s 2020-21 Corporate Plan, which highlights $6 billion of targeted, efficient investment over the next three years.

Nine in 10 businesses will be able to order high-speed fibre broadband as NBN Co rolls out 240 Business Fibre Zones nationwide.

Residents of Wyndham in the hinterland of New South Wales’ far south coast can now enjoy new and improved mobile coverage thanks to the Government’s highly successful $380 million Mobile Black Spot Program.

The Morrison Government will provide $5 million to the Australian Associated Press Limited Newswire (AAP) under the Public Interest News Gathering (PING) program. 

The Australian Government has today announced the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has been engaged to develop and operate the new Regional Digital Technology Hub.

More communities in regional and remote Queensland will benefit from new and improved mobile coverage following the switch-on of Optus’ 100^th tower under the Government’s Mobile Black Spot Program.