Opposition in ‘dismay’ over failure to establish triple-0 inquiry

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The Shadow Communications Minister has slammed the government for failing to establish a Parliamentary committee over the triple zero outages. It comes as officials face a Senate grilling about when they were informed of last month's Optus outage.

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00:00We have been working today pretty hard since we've been receiving information bit by bit,

00:09Anne and myself, but it was only 24 hours' notice to receive the legislation

00:15that the government had the opportunity to put forward for a year and a half.

00:21So we worked with our colleagues, we got some amendments.

00:24I think there were really important amendments to improve the bill in the interests of Australians.

00:31These were to increase the fines from 10 million to 20 million,

00:36because the Minister stood in question time yesterday and she said,

00:40this isn't the government's fault, it is Optus's fault.

00:44So we enabled the government to increase the fine, to have a big stick and take it to Optus,

00:51to take it to any telecommunications service that let Australians down and they voted that down.

00:57They let Australians down when they said no to increasing the fine from 10 million, doubling it to 20 million.

01:05We think that the triple zero service is critical infrastructure.

01:10Australians have critical infrastructure in water, in sewerage, in energy

01:17and they're the things that people need for their daily lives.

01:20They also need to be able to call triple zero in their greatest time of need.

01:25The government voted this very serious amendment down.

01:31I've been calling for weeks for a public register of every single triple zero outage,

01:38so the public can see what's going on, so there is transparency.

01:42I don't think that's too much to ask.

01:44The government just voted that down.

01:48And I think that there should be reporting, not every six months after a triple zero outage,

01:54where people died, every three months and for that to be made public.

01:58And once again, the government voted that down.

02:02There's one more piece to this puzzle and today I asked the parliament to put a committee together,

02:08a standing committee with the government, the opposition and crossbenchers

02:12to have a further investigation into this outage in the whole triple zero network.

02:17And we want Australians to be able to have their say, to come to parliament and tell their stories

02:22right across the regions, the cities and what's been going on.

02:25That's fair.

02:26I don't think that's political and the government voted that down.

02:30So between the email that the minister's office received on the Thursday after the outage,

02:36and she said she didn't know until the Friday, to our amendments, our sensible amendments

02:41that we worked really hard on for 24 hours, that's all we got, to not having a committee to oversee,

02:49to have a look into what occurred, it is a dismay.

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