1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. The TRIPLEO emergency system is in disarray, 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: with another Optus outage after this month's earlier fatal failure 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: and nbn CO customers also unable to call first responders. 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: Earlier this month, at least three people died after the 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 1: TRIPLEO system shut down for Optus customers when the carrier 7 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: conducted a system upgrade but failed to notice it disabled 8 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: emergency calls. Optus said that was human error. The same 9 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: mistake happened just under two years ago, costing Optus it's 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 1: then chief executive, and this year's disaster caused wild fury 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: among politicians who said OPTAs had failed to properly inform 12 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: them of the problem, but Optus's Singaporean owners, Singtel, stood 13 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: by its chief executive, Stephen Rue. On Sunday, Optus failed 14 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: again with the emergency backup that allows calls to be 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: diverted to other carriers during outages, fall over at one 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: of its towers in Country New South Wales, and this 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: time Optus says it doesn't know why. And on Friday, 18 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: in Western Australia's Esperance nbn Co customers were unable to 19 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: call Triblo on landlines. Optus's Singapore and boss Un Kwan 20 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,119 Speaker 1: Moon will meet with Communications Minister Anika Wells on Tuesday. 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: He's also meeting Optus's chairman and the CEO, Stephen Rue. 22 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: Treasure of Jim Chalmers says the government's asked the Communications 23 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 1: watchdog to investigate. 24 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 2: This is an absolutely shocking failure. Our focus as a 25 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 2: government is getting to the bottom of what went wrong. 26 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 2: We've instructed Akmar to investigate. We'll obviously be closely monitoring 27 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 2: that investigation and we will consider whether further actions are necessary. 28 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: The coalition is blaming the government. He is New South Wales' 29 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: opposition leader Mark Speakman. 30 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: The Singaporean owners of Optus Sintel have to look at 31 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 3: the structure of Optis and asker other people in charge 32 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 3: really doing their job. Safety has to come first. 33 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: The federal budget's going into a ten billion dollar deficit, 34 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: but the government says it should be congratulated because the 35 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: deficit is less than the twenty eight billion it had 36 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: previously forecast. Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister at Katie Gallagher 37 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,399 Speaker 1: have released the final budget outcome and say the improvement's 38 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: partly due to a bigger than expected intake of tobacco excize. 39 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: You can find out all the detail by joining our 40 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: subscribers at the Australian dot com dot a U and 41 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: come back to the front tomorrow for our look at 42 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 1: a case that has got transactivists and women's groups all 43 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:36,480 Speaker 1: fired up.