During the bush fires we watched all broadcasts regarding areas affected and were able to know from the ABC if our area or our relatives' towns were under threat. We were grateful for such immediate broadcasts.

It is during times like this that ABC and SBS play a big part in people's everyday lives with on the spot news.

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Letter to the editor | Eastgrove television access riles residents

Goulburn's Eastgrove residents lobby for ABC, SBS reception

ABC and SBS no longer broadcast in Eastgrove

In this day and age of technology and people buying Smart TVs and not getting the use of them, it is deplorable we at Eastgrove go without a service FREE to air in other districts.

Surely budgets are set to include such happenings due to storms and other unfortunate circumstances so transmitters are repaired and maintained in the way they were set up to be used, not to sit in the environment and be forgotten.

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I am asking on behalf of all residents in the Eastgrove area for a solution to this problem. Government departments and the local council seem to have washed their hands of this problem. After all, we are in the 21st century and technology is more advanced.

Surely you can get to the bottom of the problem that no one seems to want fixed. We the residents of Eastgrove vote you people in and pay your way via our taxes. We are entitled to have transmission of a service that is free and taken for granted by others in Goulburn.

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