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The telco pays up after scammers exploited ID check weakness at subsidiary Coles Mobile. Follow today’s news liveGet our

Liberal leader Sussan Ley faces fundamental fracture on Coalition climate policy. Follow today’s news liveGet our

The communications minister plans to press companies on their legal obligations to protect community safety and procedures to avoid outagesGet our

Victorian Liberal Sarah Henderson says Perth MP has been ‘sidelined’ for his immigration views but party’s ‘backbench is a very powerful place to be’Get our

Minister asks parent company to appoint external reviewer in attempt to restore Australians’ faith in emergency calls

Optus says it confirmed the welfare of all callers who called triple zero after an issue affected Illawarra region in NSW

Communications minister Anika Wells says telco has ‘no excuses here’ after last week’s outage linked to three deaths across two states

Consumer advocacy bodies and Greens say Labor failed to act fast enough to prevent last week’s outage linked to multiple deaths

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Albanese government under pressure to ensure stiff penalties are imposed as emergency management minister blasts telco as “absolutely disgraceful”

Telco head says two people in South Australia and one in Western Australia died, offering his ‘sincere apologies’