Telstra outage blamed on maintenance failures | ABC News Top Stories

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Telstra has blamed last week's network outage on failures in its maintenance procedures. The telco's executives have been grilled by a Senate inquiry today over the outage, which blocked more than 600 triple zero calls and caused widespread problems on transport and payment networks. Telstra says a fix to an earlier fault was not properly documented, and a crucial software update not performed. CEO Vicki Brady has conceded the telco is at fault. Moira Deeming's political career with the Victorian Liberals is over, after the party's state executive voted to revoke the MP's candidacy for the November election. She had alleged her party room colleague Matthew Guy had assaulted her at a community event in May -- but after police reviewed CCTV, they said no offence was detected. Mrs Deeming has refused to apologise, saying she made the allegation in good faith. The Chinese Foreign ministry has rejected a claim by Donald Trump that China interfered in the 2020 US federal election. The US President made the claim in a speech earlier today, and said the U-S would release documents showing China hacked 220-million voter files. He didn't say how the hacked information may have been used against the US, but also repeated his debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election he lost to Joe Biden was rigged.And for more news at any time you can follow the ABC Top Stories podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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