Ruse and Kentlyn locals are very concerned with the Chinese buying up Australian farms.
Or at least that’s what they said to Russell Matheson, the federal member for Macarthur, when he dropped in at the Ruse Village shopping centre earlier today.
Mr Matheson’s visit to listen to the concerns of locals had been prearranged and residents were informed via a letterdrop in Ruse as well as Kentlyn households.
But he didn’t have it all to himself because Labor gatecrashed the party via Senator Deborah O’Neill.
Senator O’Neill, who grew up here and went to St Patrick’s college but now lives on the central coast, said she wanted to let locals know that Ruse, Kentlyn and Ambarvale would be inflicted with the “dodgy brothers’’ version of the NBN.
“Not only will Ruse residents have slower broadband speeds than locals in Leumeah and Campbelltown, they will have the added eyesore of dozens of street cabinets littering their suburbs,’’ Senator O’Neill said.
Across the carpark of the Ruse shopping centre, Russell Matheson dismissed Senator O’Neill’s claims as “old ones’’.
Mr Matheson said the people he had spoken to had raised other concerns.
“We’re getting on with the job and rolling out the NBN to places like Kentlyn and Ruse,’’ he said.
