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Telstra aware of investigation into death in South Australia during triple zero issues

Telstra said it is aware South Australia police are investigating the death of a person during the company's network issues. SA police said yesterday they were investigating the death, which occurred at a regional hospital on Wednesday.

Our thoughts are with the person's family and loved ones at this difficult time.

We are working closely with South Australia Police to support their investigation and to establish whether there is any connection between this matter and yesterday's network outage.

We are working to get rid of the Labor government, that's our focus. Our focus isn't on some kind of coalition or alliance. Our focus is on getting rid of a rotten Labor government. I want us to be in government in our own right.

That is not our plan. Our plan is to get rid of the government.