Wells deflects criticism over government’s handling of triple-zero outages
Communications Minister Anika Wells has called on Opposition leader Sussan Ley to apologise for claiming she was “swanning around” New York during a recent United Nations visit to promote the government’s under-16 social media ban.
Ley had previously argued Wells should have remained in Australia to handle the recent triple-zero outage.
Wells has since announced new legislation to establish a Triple Zero Custodian to continuously monitor the emergency network and manage any future crises.
The custodian was a key recommendation from a March 2024 review commissioned after an Optus outage two years ago, but the Opposition says the government has been too slow to act.
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