Senate Environment and Communications References Committee
17 July 2026
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Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Australian Parliament
14:19 - 15:53
Speaker 9
Declare open this public hearing of the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee inquiry into triple zero service outage. I begin by acknowledging the cust... The traditional custodians of the land in which me... We meet and pay my respects to their elders past and present. I extend that respect to any aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.
These are public proceedings being video streamed live on the Parliament House website, and a hand side transcript is being made. For all the... For the benefit of attendees, I'm the chair, senator Sarah Hansen Young, and I'm joined today by senator Caddell in person. And we've got, senator Polly appearing remotely. I just wanna put in there, I've had an apology from senator Henderson who is on medical leave today.
If there are no objections, the committee authorizes medical... If there are no objections, the committee authorizes media recording and photography. We've already asserted that. Thank you, to our fellow, members of the press gallery. You know the rules.
I remind all witnesses that in giving evidence to the committee, they are protected by parliamentary privilege. It is unlawful for anyone to threaten or disadvantage a witness on account of evidence given to a committee, and such action may be treated by the senate as contempt. It is also a contempt to give false or misleading evidence. The committee generally prefers evidence to be given in public. But under the senate's resolutions, witnesses do have the right to request to be heard in private session.
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