‘Coincidence’: China Probe Call Amid Telstra Trouble

‘Coincidence’: China probe call amid Telstra trouble

Barnaby Joyce has a theory about what could have caused an outage affecting Australia’s biggest telco.

‘China’: Barnaby’s wild Telstra theory

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce is calling for an investigation into whether China’s missile test is linked to the Telstra outage affecting phone services and critical infrastructure across the country.

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One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has called for the cause of today’s Telstra outage to be investigated, claiming without evidence that it could be linked to China’s ballistic missile test on Monday. “I hope it’s just a coincidence about the intercontinental ballistic missile that went into the Pacific. I hope there’s no, you know, I don’t want to be paranoid or conspiracy theorist, but we know there is the capacity for … China to affect that sort of …