Optus Chairman John Arthur appears before the Triple Zero Service Outage Public Hearing Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, November 3, 2025. Source: AAP / LUKAS COCH/AAPIMAGE
A Senate inquiry has begun into Optus’s Triple-Zero outage, which left hundreds unable to contact Triple Zero and was later linked to three deaths. Optus CEO Stephen Rue faced tough questioning over the company’s response to the nationwide network failure, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed the start of the inquiry.
A Senate inquiry has begun into Optus’s Triple-Zero outage, which left hundreds unable to contact Triple Zero and was later linked to three deaths. Optus CEO Stephen Rue faced tough questioning over the company’s response to the nationwide network failure, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed the start of the inquiry.
