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Senate inquiry urges sweeping reforms after Triple Zero outage crises
A Senate inquiry investigated a string of outage issues with major telcos affecting Triple Zero. (ABC News: Shakira Wilson)
A long-running Senate inquiry into the Triple Zero emergency call crisis has handed down its final report today.
The inquiry started as a probe into the failings of Optus after its massive network outage in September 2025, but was expanded as more emergency call failures were revealed.
Inquiry chair Sarah Hanson-Young says removing control of the Triple Zero system from Telstra should be at the top of the government's to-do list.
Control of a vital Triple Zero (000) function should be removed from Telstra and nationalised to avoid further crises, a Senate inquiry has recommended.
Strip Telstra of Triple Zero, mandate network roaming: inquiry
The Albanese government should step in and strip management of Triple Zero calls from Telstra and force telecommunications companies to share their networks under a plan to radically overhaul the nation’s emergency services system and the wider telco sector.
A bipartisan inquiry into the Triple Zero service set up after the catastrophic outage at Optus in September last year has urged the federal government to introduce a text message option to contact emergency services and set up an “automatic compensation scheme” for those affected by service outages.
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Telstra not to be trusted with Triple Zero, says Senate inquiry
Telstra should be stripped of its responsibility for overseeing Australia’s emergency services hotline and the responsibility handed to an independent authority, a cross-party inquiry into the Triple Zero system has recommended, following a series of catastrophic outages over the past year.
The report was handed down on Monday – just over a year after an Optus outage on September 18, 2025 that was linked to two deaths, and a national Telstra outage in July this year.
Signed by Labor, Coalition and Greens MPs, it also calls for a text-based method of contacting Triple Zero and the mandating of domestic roaming for calls and messaging.
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