 ABC NewsRadio began to continue its news programming online while its radio network broadcast parliament in 2002 – amongst the first of the Corporation's radio networks to offer live, exclusive, streaming online.The service also expanded into the Gold Coast – the first new coverage area for the network in five years.In 2003, former Communications Minister Senator Richard Alston lodged sixty-eight complaints with the Independent Complaints Review Panel against ABC's "AM" radio program for its coverage of the US-led invasion of Iraq.