3 d. ago Gas fitter pleads guilty over death of newborn at Bankstown Hospital

Christopher Turner changed his plea on Friday over the 2016 tragedy that left one newborn dead and another with life-long brain injuries. 

Events

2 w. ago Failure to launch? Embattled Optus pulls out of space industry roadshow

Days after another devastating outage, Optus was a no-show at a major international civil space industry congress in Sydney.

Politics

4 w. ago There will be more outages like Optus’ as tech runs the world

There’s an expectation that technology should always work. But in reality, tech failures like the one at Optus are routine.

Politics

4 w. ago Optus’ crisis playbook is now so predictable it rings hollow

In an era in which first impressions become permanent for many, there is no room for the kind of failures we’ve witnessed from Optus.

Events

4 w. ago Warnings missed before catastrophic Optus triple zero failure

Optus admits it missed at least five warnings that triple zero was not working, including two from NSW.

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4 w. ago WA Police left in the dark over full extent of Optus outage that left two dead

Western Australia’s police force learned of the full extent of the Optus network outage that affected triple-zero calls at the same time as the rest of the nation on Friday afternoon.

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4 w. ago ‘Not good enough’: At least five customers tried to warn Optus of 000 outage

The embattled telco’s chief Stephen Rue said those warnings weren’t acted on because no Triple Zero failure was detected in the Optus network at the time.

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4 w. ago Optus failure: Newborn’s death ‘unlikely’ to be caused by 000 outage, police

SA Police said preliminary investigations had found while the boy’s family had been impacted by the Triple Zero failure, it most likely didn’t lead to the baby’s death.

Events

4 w. ago Four deaths confirmed after Optus outage blocked calls to Triple Zero.

A fourth death has been confirmed by authorities following a technical failure during an Optus upgrade blocked calls to Triple Zero in three states for 13 hours.

Events

last month Timeline: What happened in the 32 hours after a customer told Optus Triple Zero wasn’t working

It took Optus 32 hours to notify the public of a catastrophic failure of its network that dropped at least 600 Triple Zero calls, resulting in the deaths of three people.

Economics

last month Four death confirmed after Optus outage blocked calls to Triple Zero

A fourth death has been confirmed by authorities following a technical failure during an Optus upgrade blocked calls to Triple Zero in three states for 13 hours.

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