Australia news live: Anika Wells says welfare checks under way after some callers could not connect to triple zero during Telstra outage

According to The Guardian, a Telstra network outage disrupted emergency services across Australia, with communications minister Anika Wells saying welfare checks are under way after some callers were unable to connect to triple zero. Wells stressed it is important that people do not make test calls to the emergency line. The same outage was reported as the cause of a radio network fault that halted Victoria's regional V/Line train services, with a long list of cancellations and passengers advised to defer travel where possible.

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