A man’s body has been found inside a car submerged under a river in the NSW Hunter Region. About 6am on Wednesday, emergency services were called to the Merriwa River, along the Golden Highway, following reports a car was submerged in the water. A crime scene was established by police,Continue Reading
Traditional owners who took their fight over destruction caused to a sacred Northern Territory site to the High Court will have to wait until the new year to learn the outcome. The Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority had first taken the Director of National Parks to court over damage done toContinue Reading
Uber kerbside pick-up is finally coming to Sydney Airport after the same was launched at Melbourne Airport two years ago, ending a frustrating issues plaguing passengers for years. The new Uber pick up zone outside the T3 domestic terminal will be available from Thursday, December 21 in time for theContinue Reading
A man has been arrested and charged over his role in an alleged massive phishing scam that bombarded Aussies with 17 million fraudulent texts pretending to be from Australia Post or Linkt. Detectives arrested the man, 36, at his Moorebank property in Sydney’s southwest on Tuesday after executing a searchContinue Reading
Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has apologised to customers as she was lashed over her “pretty lousy” response to an outage that left more than 10 million Australians cut off from phone and internet services. The embattled chief executive appeared before a parliamentary hearing alongside network business chief, Lambo Kanagaratnam,Continue Reading
Some locals in a small South Australian town are up in arms and demanding compensation from telecommunications giant Telstra after a rolling network outage disrupted coverage from last week. Port Pirie businesswoman and Telstra customer Claire Marks, who used to run a fish and chip and pizza shop in theContinue Reading
Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey has slammed what he says is “very unfair” criticism of telco Optus after millions of customers were impacted by a nationwide outage. The ad aired on radio stations including 2GB, 6PR, and 3AW, where Mr Harvey defended Optus, stating it “could happen to any company”,Continue Reading
Optus has began issuing apology text messages to millions of customers affected by this week’s mass outage. A nationwide blackout left 10 million Australians without phone or internet access for more than 12 hours on Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of businesses were left unable to accept payments due to theContinue Reading
Marketing and tech experts have warned the reputational damage caused by the Optus outage may be almost impossible to recover, with one saying the company hasn’t “learnt lessons from the past” and has made a “billion-dollar mistake”. Optus customers woke on Wednesday morning to find they were unable to accessContinue Reading
The Australian share market has had a lacklustre finish after a hot start to the day. The ASX200 ended Thursday with little over a single point over where it was on Wednesday before climbing by 0.02 per cent to end the day with 7325.00 points Thursday got off to aContinue Reading