As the Telstra crisis unfolded, the Coalition fell victim to another communications failure

Australia experienced a major telecommunications outage on Wednesday—the second in twelve months. Telstra's breakdown left millions without phone service, halted trains, froze EFTPOS transactions, and caused hundreds of emergency triple-zero calls to fail. According to The Guardian, opposition leader Angus Taylor should be demanding government accountability on telecom regulation. Instead, Taylor is preoccupied with his own communications failures, a distraction from what should be sustained scrutiny of the government's oversight of Australia's critical communications sector.

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