Jul 15, 2026 – 12.00pmFormer Telstra chair Catherine Livingstone warns Australia will be vulnerable to cascading outages among telcos, banks and transport until political leaders take responsibility instead of blaming specific providers.After last week’s nationwide Telstra outage, which crippled railway networks in NSW and Victoria, left small businesses without payment systems and caused havoc with the Triple Zero emergency call system, Livingstone said Canberra must lead a plan to improve national resilience.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Ex-Telstra chair warns nation ‘very vulnerable’ to telco, bank outages
Catherine Livingstone, who has chaired both Telstra and Commonwealth Bank, says Canberra should avoid shouting at one company and improve national resilience.
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