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Optus admitted up to 600 households in SA, WA and the NT were impacted by the triple-zero outage. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Optus under fire over outage after death of WA resident

Optus has come under intense scrutiny after deadly outage left customers without access to triple-0 emergency calls resulting in three deaths.

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A man has been detained during the search for Dezi Freeman.
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‘Shocking’: CBA goes down, Aussies furious

Commonwealth Bank customers are furious as they are unable to make payments or use key services this morning.

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A five-month-old puppy has been mauled to death by three off-leash dogs.

Dog attack horror as off-leash hounds leave woman covered in blood and her puppy dead

The owner was also bitten during the chaos and ended up covered in blood — both her own and her puppy’s.

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Optus CEO Stephen Rue.

10 hours, three deaths: Optus’ ‘bewildering’ response to triple-0 outage

The Optus outage that left 600 customers unable to call triple-0, including three incidents involving a death, lasted five times longer than first reported.

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Tammie Rolfe lies injured as paramedics rush to treat her at the scene.

Neighbourhood dispute erupts in alleged violent tomahawk attack

Witnesses tried to break up the brutal alleged assault that landed three people in hospital.

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Three people have died following the technical failure. NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Three dead after Optus call failure

The telecommunications company has made a devastating announcement following a network upgrade that affected triple-0 calls.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Monday.

PNG typically plays hard ball in rugby league security game

James Marape’s proud assertion of PNG’s long held non-aligned foreign policy should have been a clear signal that securing a military alliance with the Pacific neighbour won’t be easy. 

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A mother jailed over the drowning deaths of her two sons has won an appeal, with a retrial ordered.

Mum’s huge court win after kids’ drowning deaths

A mum jailed for the manslaughter of her two sons – who drowned in a river after allegedly being left unsupervised – has secured a retrial after her convictions were quashed.

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A man has been jailed after he was found with child abuse material and files depicting bestiality on his phone during a search at Melbourne Airport earlier this year.

Man learns fate for sickening find on phone at Melbourne Airport

Thousands of disturbing files were found within a ‘photo vault application’.

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A person has died in a workplace accident in Coolaroo, Melbourne.

Person killed in Melbourne workplace accident

Intensive care paramedics attended the scene but the worker could not be saved.

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AusPost will resume sending parcels to the US from September 22. NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Major update on AusPost’s US services after tariffs forced halt

Australia Post has announced a huge update after halting deliveries to the United States due to import tariff rules.

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Seven people were arrested after the brutal murders of two boys in Cobblebank.

Seven arrested over alleged machete murders of teen boys

Police have arrested a number of people over the stabbing murder of two boys on a suburban street as they were heading home after a basketball match.

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