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Taylor defends Sarah Henderson’s triple-zero calls amid questions about claimed Telstra-outage death in SA
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Angus Taylor says his shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson was “doing her job” when she “tested” the triple-zero system by making unnecessary calls to it during Telstra’s nationwide outage.
The opposition leader has also dismissed concerns about Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle’s claim that an elderly person died as a result of the outage on Wednesday, after South Australian police said they were unaware of any such death. In a statement, she said her office had advised the family to inform police about the incident.