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12 September 2026

Victoria Police conduct dozens of welfare checks after Optus outage

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Victoria Police conduct dozens of welfare checks after Optus outage

Victoria's health minister has described the latest outage, which left dozens of callers struggling to get through to emergency services, as "incredibly disappointing and unacceptable".

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