NITV Radio News - 22/09/1995

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Western Australia police say Optus did not contact them about customers' inability to reach emergency services for almost 24 hours and did not brief them about the scale and impact of an outage, before issuing a public press release.


The Optus Triple-Zero outage has spread to another state, with the telco revealing that at least two customers in New South Wales were unable to reach emergency services.The outage has been linked to four deaths so far, with several investigations underway, including by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly where Australia is expected to recognise a Palestinian state.

Singaporean Football legend Fandi Ahmad is calling for Australian teams to return to the top-flight Singaporean league.

That and more on NITV Radio.

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