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Victoria Police conduct dozens of welfare checks after Optus outage

ABC News Australia Top Stories and Epoch Times World describe the same event in different terms.

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What happened Victoria's health minister has described the latest outage, which left dozens of callers struggling to get through to emergency services, as "incredibly disappointing and unacceptable".
The headline split The center frames it as "Victoria Police conduct dozens of welfare checks after Optus outage". The right frames it as "Latest Optus Outage Triggers Welfare Checks from Police".
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CenterVictoria Police conduct dozens of welfare checks after Optus outage

ABC News Australia Top Stories · Center · News report

Right / center-rightLatest Optus Outage Triggers Welfare Checks from Police

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Epoch Times WorldNews report · Sep 12, 3:30 AM

Latest Optus Outage Triggers Welfare Checks from Police

Optus has apologised after its second network outage, which left police conducting welfare checks when dozens of emergency calls failed to connect.

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ABC News Australia Top StoriesNews report · Sep 12, 12:52 AM

Victoria Police conduct dozens of welfare checks after Optus outage

Victoria's health minister has described the latest outage, which left dozens of callers struggling to get through to emergency services, as "incredibly disappointing and unacceptable".

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