Melissa McIntosh (Lindsay, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Communications. When exactly did the minister personally find out about the triple 0 outage on 18 September, and how was the minister personally advised of this outage?

Anika Wells (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sport) | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the shadow minister for her question. The triple 0 outage from Optus occurred on 18 September—the Thursday. I was made aware by my office late Friday afternoon that there had been more than 600 calls impacted and three deaths.