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A class action lawsuit is been issued against Optus after a major hack last year.

Optus desperately needs a reset. Here’s what comes next

Australia’s second-largest telco is priming for a much-needed reboot after suffering the nation’s worst data breaches and telecommunications outages.

  • David Swan

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Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland ahead of an address to the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday 22 November 2023. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Government pledges triple-zero reforms after Optus outage

Communications minister Michelle Rowland says she will accept all recommendations from a review into the effect of last year’s national Optus outage on the triple-zero system after lives were put at risk.

  • David Swan
Lambo Kanagaratnam, Optus’ managing directorm of networks, during a Senate hearing in November 2023.

Optus’ network boss quits four months after outage

The departure comes after an outage that affected 10 million customers, and while the company is still scrambling to find a new CEO.

  • David Swan
Former Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.

Optus triple-zero failure during mass outage 10 times worse than reported

In a development the communications minister calls “deeply disturbing”, Optus says more than 10 times the number of emergency calls than it initially claimed failed to connect during the November 8 outage.

  • David Swan
Former Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin.

Banks, telcos to be quizzed at Senate hearing into Optus outage

Whoever is appointed Optus’ next CEO will need years to rebuild the telco’s reputation, insiders say, as the Senate announces a second hearing into the mass outage.

  • David Swan
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin last year. Since then, two crises have hurt the company and led to her departure.

Less than ‘match fit’ Optus pays a heavy price for failure

The end of Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s tenure as chief executive at Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company can be traced back to one word.

  • David Swan
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Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin resigned after the network outage, which was the second crises the company suffered in 13 months. It was the subject of a cyberattack last year.

The lessons Australia’s CEOs are failing to learn

What remains surprising is how often companies and chief executives fail to learn lessons from past crises even though corporate Australia is littered with them.

  • Anne Hyland
Paul O’Sullivan, 63, is chair of Optus. ANZ Banking Group, Western Sydney Airport, and is a director of St Vincent’s Health Australia.

Paul O’Sullivan, ‘the Godfather’ of Optus apologises for network outage

O’Sullivan, who has worked with Optus for three decades, said he won’t be following Kelly Bayer Rosmarin out the door, but the decision is Singtel’s to make.

  • Anne Hyland
ABC’s recruitment ad on TikTok.

Aunty social: ABC to pay $100k for you to slay on TikTok

Has Andrew Probyn been proven right? The public broadcaster is on the hunt for people to make its socials sing.

  • Noel Towell and Kishor Napier-Raman
Former premier Gladys Berejiklian “[She] was an icon. She held the whole electorate and NSW together during the whole COVID crisis.”

Will Gladys Berejiklian be Optus’ next CEO?

Last Friday’s Senate hearing had all the signs of a final act for Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, with all eyes now turning to her replacement.

  • David Swan

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