Billions more poured into AUKUS + Telco outages can be avoided. Here’s how

Friday Headlines:

• Billions more invested in AUKUS as Labor looks to keep a lid on debate at national conference
• Pauline Hanson lashes DV payments, child support, in newly surfaced interview
• Global oil price back up above $100 for the first time in two months
• Warnings after Open AI model breaks out of cage and hacks another company 
• Aussies have already won gold as slimmed down Comm Games get underway

Deep Dive: Why do Australia’s telcos fail so catastrophically? This month, Telstra’s network suffered a nationwide outage that shut down trains and blocked Triple Zero calls, following major outages for Optus customers in 2023 and 2025. 

Do other countries have similar telco failures, or are Australia’s uniquely bad? What has to change to make sure Aussies are always connected to the phone network? 

In this episode of The Briefing, Sacha Barbour Gatt is joined by Carol Bennett, the CEO of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. 

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• Gambling chat with Kate Chaney: What the govt buried on budget day
• The world’s spies are worried about AI

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