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Telstra’s outage reminds Australians ‘how vulnerable’ they are

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the Telstra outage is another reminder of “how vulnerable” Australians are.

Mr Bolt said Australia could potentially be impacted by a cyber attack from a “hostile power

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Cash is king.
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These incidents are reminders that the net can crash anytime and turn life into a chaos nobody will know how to deal with. The net with its mobile phones, digital IDs, digital banking, digital money, smart everything, AI, algorithm and social media networks, is a fluke, a crime exploited Pandora's Box, and the bigger it gets, impossible to control. The net should never have become the foundation and framework for Life On Earth. Are we stuck with it? Perhaps, unless the next crash wakes us all up and we learn to live a normal human life without the daily traps posed by that monstrous mechanical device.
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Telstra had already been alerted to the potential problem by techicians .
Management decisions allowed it to happen.!!!
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10.07.2026
FACTS
- SWINEBURN University Prof. Expresses network “Vulnerability”, months ago.
- SWINEBURN & SEE,SIRO have the means and capability to cause the outage (to prove a point).
- School Holidays = Less Economic damage.
- VLine Outage = Bus’s as Fail Safe
- Taxi Outage = Uber Fail Safe

SWINEBURN & SEE,SIRO caused the Telstra network outage intentionally.

This outage can NOT of been caused without knowing the exact outcome.

Clear as day SWINEBURN & SEE,SIRO committing:
- Espionage
- Corporate Espionage
- Terrorism

Against the Australian public, an Australian Business & Commercial Entity.

They need to be investigated and held to account. 100%.
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Need a permanent Labor government outage
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Newscorp throwing out the same tired old chestnut and blaming the current government. Our phones are technically capable of multinetwork operation but our telcos forbid it.
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Plane crashes due to software malfunction, just after an M4.1 Solar Storm flare was detected a few hours earlier. These solar flares are being detected behind the GPS Outages, Plane flight crashes and massive Bush fires. This is well known in certain places like NASA and NOAAH. Earth's magnetic field is in the throws of collapsing, which is why the solar flares are penetrating so heavily. Nuclear background radiation is also on the rise; much higher in an aeroplane than on the ground.
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Telstra CEO Vicki Brady is on her way home after being on holiday.
She might be wondering if the outage will affect her $238K fortnightly salary.
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Is the Telstra CEO Vicky Grady going to resign over this like the Optus CEO during the last Optus network debacle? I've only seen statements in the press from the Telstra CFO so far, nothing from the Telstra CEO.
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Yes so. They had an "824 minute" wait for assistance yesterday. The issue is incompetence, the "less admin more efficiency" mantra lie, staff who couldn't care less, AI, Bots (customer service) and an institution that is "above" Ombudsman and the Government. And definitely no communication or low information update - one phone says no network down and another that says no network. What an agenda!
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Think you live in an advanced society until you realise the phone company has people ready to fix problems but can't be contacted because of the problem
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@balung From YouTube ↗ 9 Jul 2026 5
Telstra just laid off 100s of workers in Australia and sent their jobs to India. Telstra wants a repeat of the Optus hack.
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This is why it’s good to have a satellite phone network goes down and via satellite you can still ring
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Glad i have optus
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how safe is our digital money ???
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Telstra is vulnerable
We can move elsewhere
Theyve just exposed themselves...again!!
This was no accident
This will backfire
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simple fact, you can nor have aluminum metal nor steel without using COAL to remove the oxygen from the ore....
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It's so easy to be critical with hìnd site.
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LMAO, if we had a Communications attack from Chine, don't panic Elbow would write a Wery Wery Nasty Letter to XI.
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Make Telstra Clarify what they deem meant by stating it was an accident!!

I've been fighting Telstra for over 9 years because they DON'T provide any real Internet Services, and my mobile phone service isn't that much better!!