News and politics live updates: Telstra CFO Michael Ackland ‘deeply sorry’, reveals scale of Triple-0 outage

LIVE UPDATES: Telstra CEO Michael Ackland says the telco is deeply sorry for a major outage that affected Triple-0 calls while revealing how many customers had been affected.

Kimberley Braddish, Chloe Maher and Madeline Cove
The Nightly
Telstra experienced a major mobile network outage affecting calls and data services across Australia, beginning at approximately 4:30 AM.

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Key events

08 Jul 2026 - 05:20 PM

That’s a wrap

08 Jul 2026 - 03:37 PM

Telstra ‘deeply sorry’ for outage

08 Jul 2026 - 03:34 PM

Telstra CFO says outage was not cyber attack while issuing warning

08 Jul 2026 - 03:32 PM

Telstra CFO says all outages resolved

08 Jul 2026 - 02:55 PM

Henderson defends testing Triple Zero during Telstra outage

08 Jul 2026 - 02:10 PM

Union slams outage as ‘massive failure’ in wake of job cuts

08 Jul 2026 - 01:03 PM

ANALYSIS: Telstra’s outage sparks China fears, public relations battle

08 Jul 2026 - 12:15 PM

‘Don’t make stuff up’: Minister hits back

08 Jul 2026 - 12:09 PM

Anika Wells reveals Triple-0 calls under investigation

08 Jul 2026 - 11:11 AM

RBA hints at need for another rate hike to tame inflation

08 Jul 2026 - 10:58 AM

Miners and banks drag Aussie sharemarket into the red

08 Jul 2026 - 10:24 AM

‘No doubt about that’: Taylor says Telstra CEO should end leave

08 Jul 2026 - 09:44 AM

Albanese refuses to weigh in on Joyce’s China claim

08 Jul 2026 - 09:42 AM

‘It’s just politeness’: Albanese defends Welcome to Country

08 Jul 2026 - 09:40 AM

Albanese urges Pacific leaders to send strong China message

08 Jul 2026 - 09:23 AM

Albanese weighs in on Telstra outage

08 Jul 2026 - 09:17 AM

Australia's lack of air and missile defence is highlighted by Chinese test firing

08 Jul 2026 - 09:15 AM

Barnaby Joyce points finger at China over Telstra outage

08 Jul 2026 - 08:19 AM

Telstra CFO responds as outage throws network into chaos

08 Jul 2026 - 07:24 AM

Triple-0 impacted by Telstra outage

08 Jul 2026 - 06:18 AM

‘This is punishment’: US official confirms strikes will continue

08 Jul 2026 - 06:10 AM

Telstra sparks chaos across Australia

08 Jul 2026 - 05:45 AM

US launches fresh strikes on Iran

Trump unleashes fresh Greenland takeover bid

NATO leaders have unveiled arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Turkey, driving home the message that they are heeding US calls to spend more to defend Europe, even as President Donald Trump said he felt let down and renewed his push to control Greenland.

Leaders were convening for a summit in the capital Ankara on Tuesday, hoping to project unity after another bruising year, in which the Iran war once again exposed cracks in the alliance that has underpinned Western security since the end of World War Two.

In a meeting with President Tayyip Erdogan, Trump said he might have boycotted the NATO summit altogether had it not been for his warm relations with the Turkish leader, and did not rule out further troop withdrawals from Europe.

“Well, we’re going to see. I was very disappointed with NATO,” he said, singling out Britain, France, Germany and Italy for not doing enough to support the US war on Iran.

Trump added that “we weren’t treated well” by the allies, even as he reiterated that he did not want or need their help.

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