Good afternoon readers. Optus is investigating a fresh triple-zero outage , this time in the Illawarra region of New South Wales.

The telco said an issue with a mobile phone tower in Dapto had affected calls made between 3am and 12.20pm on Sunday, including those to the triple-zero network. Nine triple-zero call failures were identified, including a caller who required an ambulance.

It comes after more than 600 households in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory were impacted by an Optus triple-zero outage two weeks ago .

The finance minister, Katy Gallagher, said news of the latest outage was “disappointing” and that Australians should still have faith in their ability to call emergency services. “There’s clearly more work to be done,” she told the ABC on Mo

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