Taylor defends Sarah Henderson’s triple-zero calls amid questions about claimed Telstra-outage death in SA

During a nationwide Telstra outage, Australia's opposition shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson made calls to triple-zero—the emergency services number—to test the system. Opposition leader Angus Taylor defended this as Henderson doing her job during the crisis. The situation grew more complicated when Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle claimed an elderly person had died due to the outage, but South Australian police said they were unaware of any such death. According to The Guardian, these disputed claims have raised questions about how political leaders responded to the infrastructure failure.

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