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Optus will face ‘significant consequences’ for triple zero failure linked to deaths, minister says | Optus
The federal government has promised Optus will “suffer significant consequences” after multiple deaths were recorded during the telco’s triple zero outage, with major financial penalties likely. The communications regulator said it wasn’t informed of the outage by Optus until hours after it had been resolved – and that the company had provided “inaccurate” information. The […]
Australia news live: Acma not told of Optus triple-zero network issues for more than 10 hours, chair says | Australia news
Acma not told of Optus triple-zero network issues for more than 10 hours Nerida O’Loughlin, the Australian Communications Media Authority (Acma) chair, said the body usually gets multiple emails per day from telcos when something goes wrong with their networks. But in the case of the Optus outage, Acma wasn’t “notified at all until the […]
Latest recognitions of Palestinian state will deepen global diplomatic rifts | Palestinian territories
The recognition of a Palestinian state by the UK, Canada and Australia will set off a global diplomatic scramble as Israel considers a retaliatory annexation of parts of the West Bank, a move that would deepen its standoff with Europe, widen its rift with the Arab states, and further distance the US from its allies […]
Sussan Ley fights for conservative airtime as she struggles to hold together a fractured opposition | Coalition
Aside from one crude caricature distributed in the crowd, Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s name was almost entirely absent from the rightwing Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane. But stripping away the sideshow attractions – Pauline Hanson’s pinball machine, George Christensen’s photo booth props – the thread running through the two-day event was the challenge Ley […]
Australia joins UK and Canada in formally recognising Palestinian state | Australian foreign policy
Australia has formally recognised Palestine as a sovereign and independent state, completing a landmark shift in foreign policy over the Israel-Gaza war. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, announced formal recognition at the United Nations in New York, in a move timed to coincide with similar declarations by prime ministers Keir Starmer of the UK and […]
Optus admits process not followed after it missed at least five warnings of triple zero outage | Optus
Optus failed to immediately respond to at least five calls from customers unable to contact triple zero in the hours before it realised its systems had failed, as the embattled telco confirmed “established processes were not followed”. The company’s chief executive, Stephen Rue said on Sunday the company had identified at least five calls, routed […]
Canavan claims Coalition ‘on the cusp’ of abandoning net zero as Ley urged to follow Dutton’s voice referendum tactics | Climate crisis
Nationals senator Matt Canavan has claimed the Coalition is “on the cusp of walking away from net zero”, urging Sussan Ley to campaign against the emissions reduction target by taking inspiration from Peter Dutton’s opposition to the Indigenous voice referendum. The conservative political conference Cpac has heaped more pressure on Ley to dump the climate […]
NT attorney general criticised after confirming family link to hit-and-run driver | Northern Territory
The Northern Territory’s attorney general, Marie-Clare Boothby, has faced criticism after confirming she is related to a man who was spared prison last week over a hit-and-run car crash that killed an Aboriginal man. Jack Danby, 24, was sentenced to a 12-month community corrections order in relation to the crash in June 2024. Danby hit […]
Australia news live: Bowen accuses National party of betraying farmers; Optus pledges investigation into triple-zero deaths | Australia news
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Spectre of black summer bushfires hangs over Optus outage, minister says McBain said the spectre of the black summer bushfires hung over the Optus outage, particularly given reports that the incident lead to at least four deaths. The minister is asked […]
Revealed: how Albanese tried and failed (so far) to get a meeting with Trump | Australian foreign policy
Anthony Albanese is anticipating his first face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump next week. If it goes ahead, it will be the culmination of a long and complicated process of diplomatic scheduling, according to documents obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information. More than 100 pages of government communications reveal the lengths senior Australian officials […]