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The Federal Communications Minister says Optus can expect to suffer significant consequences following last week's triple-0 outage, that's been linked to multiple deaths. The Australian Communications and Media Authority [[ACMA]] has launched an investigation into the failure, with authorities looking to obtain significant information from the telco to understand what happened.

As spring has arrived in Australia, a leading food safety advocate group is calling Australians to also conduct a spring clean for their fridges, freezers and pantries. The call comes as a recent survey finds over half of Australians see food-borne illness as their main food safety concerns, but less than half consumers consistently perform food safety behaviours when preparing food at home. And with a hot summer approaching, advocates and health experts say Australians need to be more careful about food poisoning this year

Australia has joined Canada, Portugal and the United Kingdom in formally recognising a Palestinian state at the UN. The declaration was made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, with the government saying it comes as part of a push for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a warning to the countries, while saying he aims to ensure there will never be a Palestinian state.