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Shadow foreign minister Simon Birmingham has backed his former Liberal state colleague Gladys Berejiklian for the Optus chief executive position as the company seeks to fill the role vacated by Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s resignation. Ms Bayer Rosmarin resigned on Monday, days after dodging questions on her future at a Senate inquiry into the telco’s mass … Read more

A “blame culture” behind Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin quitting the telco doesn’t necessarily benefit the wider community. In the wake of the November 8 outage that left millions of Australians without access to the internet or cell service, Ms Bayer Rosmarin quit on Monday and said it was in the best interests of Optus. … Read more

At today’s shareholder meeting, Fortescue received a message from shareholders. Reuters reports that the company’s annual remuneration report was not approved, partly due to special payments to executives last year. It’s a first strike for the company. Reuters: The board of the iron ore and green energy company had approved special remuneration payments of A$1.98 … Read more

ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC ‘FRUSTRATED’ couldn’t adequately describe the way Latrobe Valley small business owners felt amid the national Optus network outage. More than 10 million Optus customers were affected by the nation-wide blackout on Wednesday, November 8 that put many without communication, internet and transaction access. John Papanikolaou has ran his small poultry … Read more

A work colleague recounts the dangerous situation a Melbourne man faced while suffering a heart attack when she could not call triple-0 during November 8’s Optus outage. Source link

Government bodies will examine the stability of the triple-zero call network after an Optus outage prevented hundreds of emergency calls going through. Source link

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The reality is that the public expects both. Optus had already worn out too much goodwill in the hack of customer details in September last year to regard this simply as a technology problem. The silences on November 8 encouraged suspicions that the company had not done enough to improve risk management even after being … Read more

Every organisation, of whatever size, faces the risk of ‘natural’ crises. These are not crises caused by natural disasters but arise from the identified crisis risks particular to your specific industry.  If, for example, you are in the food business – whether you are a major manufacturer or a family-run restaurant – one of your … Read more

Businesses that don’t rely on the Optus network could largely weather the storm after the company’s telecommunications services went down on Thursday, November 9, for about 13 hours. However, as Rosedale Pharmacy found out, a business may be on Telstra and Vodafone, but if their customers use Optus, it can still cause major disruption. Pharmacy … Read more