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