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Shadow communications minister says Australians not getting enough answers on triple-zero network
Melissa McIntosh, the shadow minister for communication, reiterated the Coalition’s calls for a full independent investigation into the triple-zero network after a series of Optus outages, including new call failures in the Illawarra region of NSW on Sunday.
It is our most essential telecommunications service. People rely on triple-zero in their most needed state when it is an emergency. And there are so many questions right now about whether it is, in fact, effective, whether it can be robust and hold up in the situations where it is needed. And we’re not getting enough answers.
How can the regulator be the investigator when they’re part of the failed process? ACMA also put a number of recommendations to the government after the outage in 2023. The minister saying that a majority of those have been implemented, but we don’t know which ones. We don’t know to which extent. So there is a question again around ACMA really getting on with things and now it is an emergency.
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Author : Nick Visser
Publish date : 2025-09-29 22:05:00
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