Telecommunications
The telco was hauled in front of a Senate hearing into its outage on Monday, and will be required to return "in the near future".
Optus has defended its plans to scale back office perks and shrink the footprint of its suburban Sydney campus in the wake of a damaging outage.
Table tennis tables, buses for staff and the footprint of Optus' sprawling Sydney campus itself have all been put under review as the embattled telco looks to find savings.
As the fallout over the Optus triple-zero outage spreads, Communications Minister Anika Wells has become the opposition's new target in Question Time.
Optus admitted it emailed the wrong government address about its triple-zero outage, sparking Coalition outrage and more heat on CEO Stephen Rue.
Politicians from Anthony Albanese to South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas have criticised the telco carrier following its emergency-network failure last week.
