Labor’s guilt in the Optus failure
The communications watchdog has opened a formal investigation into Optus after a 13-hour failure blocked about 600 triple-zero calls – now linked to three deaths.
The government is furious, calling the failure “completely unacceptable”, and warning of “significant consequences”.
But is it actually its fault too?
Today, journalist and contributor to Crikey, Michael Sainsbury, on what went wrong and how the Albanese government’s choices led to this disaster.
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