Australia news live: Telstra CEO to face parliamentary inquiry over mobile outage
Telstra executives are set to face a parliamentary inquiry following a major nationwide outage that disrupted emergency services and critical infrastructure. Lawmakers are criticizing the company for prioritizing profits over public safety and are demanding better consumer protections.
Why it matters
The inquiry highlights growing government scrutiny over the reliability of essential telecommunications infrastructure and corporate accountability.
Telstra’s bosses are set to be grilled over a nationwide outage that affected triple zero calls and businesses, disrupted payment systems and stopped trains in two states.
Telstra’s chief executive, Vicki Brady, will be among a group of executives who will front a parliamentary inquiry into the incident in Canberra on Friday.
The Greens communication spokesperson, Sarah Hanson-Young, said the committee holding the probe had called an emergency hearing over the outage.
“The truth is, Telstra, just like Optus, has put their profits ahead of public safety and public service for far too long, and the law allows them to,” she told reporters at Parliament House on Thursday.
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