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'What on earth?': Optus defends fatal outage response at Senate inquiry

'What on earth?': Optus defends fatal outage response at Senate inquiry

Update: 2025-11-03
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Under-fire Optus executives have copped a parliamentary bashing for their response to a triple-zero outage linked to the deaths of three people. The proceedings have immediately zeroed in on CEO Stephen Rue, who is being pressured to explain a significant delay in reporting the fatalities to both the government and the regulator.
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'What on earth?': Optus defends fatal outage response at Senate inquiry

'What on earth?': Optus defends fatal outage response at Senate inquiry