Australia news live: shadow minister stands by triple-zero test calls during Telstra outage; Sydney median house rents hit record $850 a week

According to The Guardian, Telstra says the triple-zero disruption tied to its network outage has been reduced by about ninety percent, though regional train services remain disrupted across Victoria and New South Wales. The outage has drawn political attention, with a shadow minister standing by calls to run test calls to the emergency line during the disruption. Separately, the ABC has rejected claims that its journalism contributed to antisemitism or social division, ahead of appearances by senior ABC and SBS executives at a royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion. And in a sign of Australia's housing squeeze, the median weekly rent for a Sydney house has hit a record eight hundred fifty dollars.

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