Nationals Lyne MP Alison Penfold asks Anika Wells:

How many triple-0 outages have occurred since you became the Minister responsible for communications?

Anika Wells:

If you read the Bean Review, you would read the disturbing fact that until our government acted, Australian telcos were not required to report outages at all. None at all. That’s what happened under you. We have put in place changes which will be further strengthened on 1 November. It will mean telcos must immediately share information relating to outages with relevant emergency service organisations such as police, fire and ambulance.