Don’t Switch Us Off

WIN Network has decided to dump all Network 10 programming across Griffith and the Murray electorate from 1 July 2026. Channel 10, 10 Drama, 10 Comedy and Nickelodeon. Gone.

This is the second time in two years. WIN tried it with Channel 7 in July 2025. Now they are doing it again with Network 10. Rural Australia is being treated as the easy place to cut costs.

Free-to-air TV should be available to every Australian regardless of where they live. For elderly residents, farming families and smaller townships, streaming is not a substitute. It is the difference between knowing a bushfire is coming and not.

I have written to WIN CEO Andrew Lancaster requesting an urgent meeting. I have written to Federal Communications Minister Anika Wells asking her to intervene. I am liaising with Senator Deborah O’Neill and Senator Bridget McKenzie to apply pressure from every angle.

Minister Wells has a responsibility to ensure equity in free-to-air television. The Minister needs to work with WIN and 10 to ensure regional viewers are not disadvantaged.

We will not allow viewers in rural and regional Australia to be treated like second class citizens.