My family and I moved from Sydney two and a half years ago, when we came to realise we were to be living in a dead zone, but stopped worrying after some locals told us that they had internet but it was slow. After contacting Telstra, we had landline but no internet, and it doesn’t seem we will. My younger sister is in Year 8 and we spend most of our lunches in the library at school and after school up the street late at night in the car, finishing our projects. I’ll be in Year 11 next year and I’m starting to question my parents choice for moving here.

These days, everything is technologically  based, everything is being done online, but i don’t just want the mobile and internet black-spots in Mystery Bay fixed but there are places everywhere in giant black-spots along the entire South Coast.

I do understand that the solution would take years, but these day, internet is a major part of our modern-day-world, and internet and mobile black-spots are a big problem. I also understand that there are other problems to deal with as well, but Mystery Bay is just a giant mobile and internet black-spot and this is not only affecting education, but is also a great safety dilemma. What happens when there’s an emergency, this is quite a major issue. Though there are barely a handful of students like myself at Narooma High, there are most probably many more in another.

“Makes where we live (small towns) think we’re insignificant that we’re not as important as the major cities/centres. I understand the government's need to get value for money, however, you do it right the first time and then there won’t be the need to make continual upgrades and pour more money into it in the future,” says Mr Van from Narooma High School.

“It is unfair that some students have internet and others do not, so I try to give sufficient class time in the computer labs to complete tasks and the students also have access to the library in their own time to use the technology,” he continued. “I’m hoping the NBN rollout will help reduce or eliminate those black-spots."

For students, internet is a must have, a necessity to our education, and in Mystery Bay we just don’t have it!