Australia news live: Telstra CEO to front Senate inquiry; Victoria’s police chief arrests man in Melbourne CBD

• 01Telstra CEO Vicki Brady and CFO Michael Ackland are scheduled to appear before the Senate inquiry into the triple zero outage.
• 02The following Telstra executives will also appear: Jane Elkington (executive responsible for triple-zero services), Gerard Tracey (executive responsible for end-to-end service performance), Bill Gallagher (legal executive), and Lanai Scarr (head of government relations).
• 03The Australian Communications and Media Authority and the communications department will provide evidence at the hearing.
• 04The Senate hearing is scheduled to commence at 12pm AEST tomorrow.
• 05Senate committee chair Sarah Hanson Young stated the committee will investigate whether the outage was caused by Telstra’s failure to replace equipment that should have been replaced years ago.
• 06Telstra confirmed it would appear before the committee on Saturday, but the committee published the program of who would appear only that afternoon.
• 07The inquiry focuses on the national triple zero outage that occurred last Wednesday.

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Telstra executives, including CEO Vicki Brady and CFO Michael Ackland, are scheduled to testify before a Senate inquiry regarding last Wednesday’s national triple zero outage. The hearing will also feature evidence from the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the communications department. Committee chair Sarah Hanson Young stated the investigation will determine if the outage resulted from Telstra’s failure to replace aging equipment.