The government has the power to ensure that network failures don’t become national catastrophes.

These outages have exhausted public patience, and promised fixes aren’t being felt yet.

The telco giant has let itself down in how transparent it was about the full impact of Wednesday’s outage.

The network disruption – which brought trains, traffic lights and Eftpos payments to a halt – raises questions about the resilience of services

Advocates have demanded changes to how telecommunication companies are regulated and held accountable for outages after Telstra became the latest telco to suffer a large-scale…

No longer will Telstra be able to comfortably estimate that those affected numbered into the thousands. This second issue will have a long tail.

The government has the power to ensure that network failures don’t become national catastrophes.

Perhaps we will return to public ownership of infrastructure networks. But for now we need to consider limited steps, with a more radical solution for fragile emergency services

Government agencies and academics both recently warned Telstra it was vulnerable to the type of error that caused this week's national outage.

Fronting a press conference shortly after flying back from holidays, chief executive Vicki Brady was across her brief, and asking for customers’ faith.