FRIDAY, 6 NOVEMBER, 2020 WEATHER PAGE 22 TV GUIDE PAGES 25-26, 47-48 PUZZLES PAGE 24 CLASSIFIEDS PAGES 51-54 borderwatch.com.au | $3.00 Connection coup for city HUNDREDS of Mount Gambier businesses can now access dedicated high-speed fibre broadband infrastructure, which the Nation- al Broadband Network Co says will level the playing field between regional and metropoli- tan areas. Mount Gambier is now home to one of eight NBN business fibre zones in regional South Australia, promising to deliver reliable business grade connections at city prices, po- tentially reducing business internet bills by thousands of dollars. STORY PAGE 3 PATS subsidy boost plea CHANGES to South Australian’s Patient Assis- tance Transport Scheme (PATS) do not go far We will remember them enough Member for Mount Gambier Troy Bell GREEN LIGHT: says, with the independent MP calling for an The Limestone Coast’s largest Remembrance Day public increase to the $40 a night accommodation service will proceed next Wednesday with Mount Gambier Community subsidy. RSL president Bob Sandow urging the community to comply with COVID requirements to ensure its success. Picture: BRETT KENNEDY From Monday, patients eligible for a PATS subsidy will be reimbursed for the actual dis- tance they travel to their treatment locations, STORY PAGE 2 rather than reimbursed for the distance trav- elled to the Adelaide GPO. STORY PAGE 4 Call for log clarity RAQUEL MUSTILLO mittee into the timber industry has heard. Jerry Leech said the committee was likely to of exports would be set in the sale contract. conclude the problems underpinning the in-
[email protected] The Legislative Council committee toured Mr Leech told the committee unless the the region on a two-day trip this week as part quiry are with the clauses in the sale contract, sale contract was made publicly available, the A ROYAL Commission into the sale of the re- of an inquiry on issues relating to the timber which has never been made public.