Environment Minister Murray Watt has said Australians should not lose faith in their Triple Zero system following multiple failures of emergency call networks in recent weeks, and that the government is taking sufficient action to investigate the outages and hold the telco to account.
“I can understand Australians being really concerned about this, and the government is obviously taking this very seriously. Optus needs to be held to account, and we are holding them to account through an inquiry. They need to come clean with the Australian public about what problems there have been in their system,” Watt told Nine’s Today this morning.
Environment Minister Murray Watt.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
“I don’t think it goes as far as people needing to lose faith in the Triple Zero system… The Communications Minister will be meeting with the CEO of Optus, and its parent company, to escalate our action. We want to see them take action to make sure that the system works as it should every single day of the year.”
Communications Minister Anika Wells will meet with Optus CEO Stephen Rue and CEO of Optus’ parent company Singtel today.
“I’m very confident that Anika will really lay down the law to the parent company’s CEO. She’s obviously already had discussions with Optus themselves, but escalating that now to the parent company demonstrates how seriously we are taking this, and it will give the Minister the opportunity to make very clear what our expectations are and what all Australians’ expectations are,” said Watt.
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