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

South Australian police say they’re unaware of death despite claim by Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle

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Angus Taylor says his shadow communications minister Sarah Henderson was “doing her job” when https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/anika-wells-ridicules-angus-taylor-and-barnaby-joyce-for-linking-telstra-outages-with-china">she “tested” the triple-zero system by making unnecessary calls to it during https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/08/telstra-outage-down-network-mobile-outages-today">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, after South Australian police said they were unaware of any such death.