Headlines: Telstra makes 600+ welfare checks
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From The Daily Oz, I'm Lucy Tassel. I'm Emma Gillespie. It's Thursday the 9th of July. Here's what's making headlines this evening.
Telstra says it's carried out 639 welfare checks on people whose calls to 000 did not go through during outages earlier this week.
What happened in Telstra's 000 outage and how many welfare checks were carried out?
Of those, 402 cases required follow-up voice calls, with 170 passed to police. Speaking to media on Thursday, Telstra's Chief Financial Officer Michael Ackland said seven callers had advised they needed assistance. He directed questions about a possible death in South Australia to police. However, SA police have denied there were any deaths related to this outage. Meanwhile, regional trains in Victoria are slowly resuming service 24 hours after people were told to make their own way home as there were only limited coach services available. Communications Minister Annika Wells told ABC Radio today that formal investigations are underway into the outage.
The US military says it's completed an additional round of strikes against Iran, which it said were aimed at keeping the critical Strait of Hormuz open. It comes a day after President Donald Trump declared an interim agreement to end the war was over. US forces struck approximately 90 Iranian military targets, according to CENTCOM, the American military's Middle East command. They included air defence systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities and military logistics infrastructure along Iran's coastline. Iran responded by targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar in crossfire. Sirens sounded at least twice in Bahrain, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters.
Childhood vaccination rates have fallen over the past five years while more Australians have chronic disease. That's according to a major report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. More than 60% of people are living with at least one chronic condition, the Australia's Health 2026 report shows, placing a growing burden on the healthcare system. The report also showed the number of children getting immunised had fallen in recent years, dropping from 95% of one-year-olds in 2020 to 92% in 2025. In some promising news though, to segue us into today's good news, cancer survival rates have shot up dramatically, with 72% of people diagnosed between 2017 and 2021 surviving at least five years, compared to just 50% three decades earlier.
And today's good news, a woman has set a new record for rowing solo from the US's west coast to Hawaii. She crossed the ocean in just 43 days. Kelsey Fendler, who works as a rafting guide in the Grand Canyon, as if she couldn't get any cooler, is now the first American woman to make the journey alone and the fastest and youngest person to ever do it.
Which incidents from the outage required police follow-up and were any deaths reported?
She also halved the previous women's record, which was 86 days and was set in 2020. Fendler arrived in Honolulu after 43 days, 17 hours and 55 minutes at sea without support earlier this week. I'm just, it's just amazing. I've never done anything that hard in my entire life.
Imagine breaking the record and not only breaking it, smashing it to smithereens down from 86 days to 43. Wowee. That is the latest from the Daily Oz newsroom for another day. But if you are looking for something else, you can catch up on this morning's Deep Dive where we explain who Nigel Farage is as much as a person can.
We'll be back tomorrow with your last Deep Dive of the week. Until then, have a great Thursday night.
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