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Victoria’s V/Line regional train network is still suffering the after-effects of yesterday morning’s Telstra outage.

According to an update early this morning, passenger services are still not operating – and that includes this morning’s peak services.

The notice, from 5.30am, adds:

We advise passengers to please defer non-essential V/Line travel. We acknowledge this has been inconvenient to many people and thank passengers for their patience as work continues to safely restore services.

A Liberal senator in South Australia claims there has been a “tragic death” following a failure to connect to triple zero during yesterday’s Telstra outage.

However police say they aren’t aware of the case.

At 7pm on Thursday, Kerrynne Liddle posted on Facebook:

My office has received a report of a tragic death following an apparent failure to connect to Triple Zero during a life-or-death emergency amid Telstra’s nationwide outage today

This death of an elderly South Australian represents a devastating failure for their family. Our thoughts are with them.

No Australian should ever be unable to connect to Triple Zero when their life depends on it.

However, the verified account for South Australia police replied to the post around two hours later, saying “South Australia police are not aware of any death in South Australia today as a result of the Telstra nationwide outage”.

Commuters urged to plan ahead as Telstra outage disrupts transport networks

Public transport commuters in New South Wales and Victoria have been urged to plan ahead and seek alternative travel plans this morning as networks continue to be affected by yesterday’s Telstra outage.

The NSW transport department said last night that passengers on Sydney Trains and NSW TrainLink regional rail services “should expect flow-on impacts” and “plan ahead and check the latest service information before commencing their journey due to ongoing disruptions affecting rail operations”.

Victorians have been advised “not to travel on V/Line services” if possible, with regional train services reduced to “a very limited coach service”.

Metro rail services in both Sydney and Melbourne remain unaffected.

‘Secondary issue’ affecting Telstra triple zero calls following outage

Late last night, Telstra confirmed a secondary issue flowing on from yesterday’s widespread national mobile outage that affected calls, including triple zero.

While yesterday’s outage had been resolved, Telstra said when some customers were calling triple zero, they would receive an error message and the phone will try to connect to an alternative network.

The company said customers should wait for the phone to connect to another network, or use a different phone to make the call.

We’re working urgently to resolve this issue.

The company made over 300 welfare checks to people who attempted to dial triple zero during yesterday’s outage. The company’s chief executive, Michael Ackland, said the number of calls appeared to be higher than normal, which suggested some customers may have been dialling triple zero to check if it worked during the outage.

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We’re still feeling the effects of yesterday’s nationwide outage of Telstra’s mobile network, more than 24 hours on (and long after the carrier declared it fixed). Some still can’t make triple zero calls, and many trains are still out of action, especially in regional areas.

The ABC has rejected claims that its journalism has stoked antisemitism as executives from the corporation and SBS front the antisemitism royal commission today.

The International Monetary Fund says forecasts for Australia’s economic growth in this financial year are unchanged despite the war in the Middle East, but trimmed its estimate for 2025-26.

More coming up.