WEBVTT - Headlines: Optus fails 000 callers again  

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<v Speaker 1>Today's biggest News from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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<v Speaker 1>the Front's afternoon headlines. The TRIPLEO emergency system is in disarray,

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<v Speaker 1>with another Optus outage after this month's earlier fatal failure

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<v Speaker 1>and nbn CO customers also unable to call first responders.

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<v Speaker 1>Earlier this month, at least three people died after the

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<v Speaker 1>TRIPLEO system shut down for Optus customers when the carrier

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<v Speaker 1>conducted a system upgrade but failed to notice it disabled

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<v Speaker 1>emergency calls. Optus said that was human error. The same

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<v Speaker 1>mistake happened just under two years ago, costing Optus it's

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<v Speaker 1>then chief executive, and this year's disaster caused wild fury

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<v Speaker 1>among politicians who said OPTAs had failed to properly inform

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<v Speaker 1>them of the problem, but Optus's Singaporean owners, Singtel, stood

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<v Speaker 1>by its chief executive, Stephen Rue. On Sunday, Optus failed

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<v Speaker 1>again with the emergency backup that allows calls to be

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<v Speaker 1>diverted to other carriers during outages, fall over at one

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<v Speaker 1>of its towers in Country New South Wales, and this

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<v Speaker 1>time Optus says it doesn't know why. And on Friday,

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<v Speaker 1>in Western Australia's Esperance nbn Co customers were unable to

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<v Speaker 1>call Triblo on landlines. Optus's Singapore and boss Un Kwan

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<v Speaker 1>Moon will meet with Communications Minister Anika Wells on Tuesday.

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<v Speaker 1>He's also meeting Optus's chairman and the CEO, Stephen Rue.

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<v Speaker 1>Treasure of Jim Chalmers says the government's asked the Communications

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<v Speaker 1>watchdog to investigate.

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<v Speaker 2>This is an absolutely shocking failure. Our focus as a

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<v Speaker 2>government is getting to the bottom of what went wrong.

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<v Speaker 2>We've instructed Akmar to investigate. We'll obviously be closely monitoring

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<v Speaker 2>that investigation and we will consider whether further actions are necessary.

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<v Speaker 1>The coalition is blaming the government. He is New South Wales'

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<v Speaker 1>opposition leader Mark Speakman.

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<v Speaker 3>The Singaporean owners of Optus Sintel have to look at

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<v Speaker 3>the structure of Optis and asker other people in charge

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<v Speaker 3>really doing their job. Safety has to come first.

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<v Speaker 1>The federal budget's going into a ten billion dollar deficit,

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<v Speaker 1>but the government says it should be congratulated because the

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<v Speaker 1>deficit is less than the twenty eight billion it had

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<v Speaker 1>previously forecast. Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister at Katie Gallagher

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<v Speaker 1>have released the final budget outcome and say the improvement's

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<v Speaker 1>partly due to a bigger than expected intake of tobacco excize.

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<v Speaker 1>come back to the front tomorrow for our look at

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<v Speaker 1>a case that has got transactivists and women's groups all

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<v Speaker 1>fired up.