The situation ‘wouldn’t be accepted in Melbourne or Sydney’ and was made worse by Australia’s basics card that prevents ATM withdrawals, Labor senator says
An internet outage left residents of a Top End remote community unable to buy food for four days, with critics arguing the situation was worsened by forced welfare income management policies.home to about 3,000 people, suffered through an outage of 3G and 4G internet services from 11am Thursday until Monday afternoon.
Ryan said some residents were going hungry or leaning on extended family for food. “Even fuel has been scarce,” he said.Telstra said the problem was fixed at 12.30pm on Monday and apologised to local residents. While Eftpos machines were down during the outage, some of the town’s ATMs have been operational at times.