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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sarah Basford Canales and Dan Jervis-Bardy

Taylor defends Sarah Henderson’s triple-zero calls as SA police investigate claimed Telstra-outage death

People walk past a Telstra store in Sydney
Angus Taylor deflected questions about his shadow communications minister’s decision to call triple zero more than once on Wednesday in response to the Telstra nationwide outage. Photograph: George Chan/AAP

Angus Taylor says his shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson was “doing her job” when she “tested” the triple-zero system by making unnecessary calls to it during Telstra’s nationwide outage.

The opposition leader has also dismissed concerns about Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle’s claim that an elderly person died as a result of the outage on Wednesday, after South Australian police initially said they were unaware of any such death.

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