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A review into the Optus outage of last November which left some customers unable to call triple zero has been handed down, finding Optus failed on multiple levels.

The government has accepted all 18 recommendations made by Richard Bean in the report.

‘Wilting’ on the 3g network – a process which powers down towers that aren’t operating properly to shut down, and reroute calls to other towers – didn’t occur last November, the report found.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

This meant triple-0 calls were not able to be redirected to other networks.

“There needs to be a greater consumer focus when it comes to triple zero” Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said.

“We will be implementing the recommendation to establish a custodian of the triple zero service. This will initially be led by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman

The report also found Optus didn’t follow existing protocols in place for when there are mass outages including steps carriers must take. The government will make it mandatory for telecommunications companies to communicate with customers and relevant agencies to ensure the appropriate information is shared.

The government will also move to develop an industry standard for matters of compensation in relation to mass outages.

“It shouldn’t be so hard for consumers to exercise their rights just because of the fact that so many consumers may have been impacted,” Rowland said.

In another case of alleged domestic violence, a man has been charged with murder after a woman, believed to be his mother, was found dead inside her home in Yangebup, south of Perth on Monday.

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Emergency services were called to a property on Sandpiper Loop in Perth’s southern suburbs about 7.15am where they made the grim discovery.

A 54-year-old man is accused of murdering the woman, aged 78, between Saturday and Monday.

“The man and the woman are believed to be known to each other and there is no ongoing threat to the public,” a police spokesman said.

A neighbour said the woman was in her 70s and had previously lived at the home with her son, but he had since moved out.“She was a really nice lady,” sh said.

All flights operated by budget carrier Bonza have been wiped from Australian airports’ departure boards on Tuesday as the outlook for the country’s smallest airline grows more uncertain.

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Chief executive Tim Jordan apologised to customers in a statement and said he was considering the viability of the business, but did not confirm or deny whether any of its aircraft had been repossessed as reported by The Australian Financial Review.

“Bonza has temporarily suspended services due to be operated today (Tuesday, April 30) as discussions are under way regarding the ongoing viability of the business,” said Jordan.

“We apologise to customers who are impacted by this, and we’re working as quickly as possible to determine a way forward that ensures there is ongoing competition in the Australian domestic aviation market.”

Bonza has previously denied engaging restructuring firm KordaMentha to work on its future.

Australian discount airline Bonza is in strife today after multiple domestic flights were cancelled and reports emerged that planes had been repossessed by creditors.

Bonza flights out of Sunshine Coast Airport were cancelled on Tuesday morning, along with some leaving from Melbourne Airport.

Bonza flights around Australia were cancelled on Tuesday.Credit: Eamon Gallagher

According to an aviation source speaking to the Australian Financial Review, as many as eight Boeing 737-MAX planes in Bonza’s fleet had been repossessed by creditors.

Bonza is yet to release a public statement.

The airline previously announced it would scale back operations, reducing the number of flights from Melbourne to the Gold Cast to just one a week.

We’ll be following this story throughout the day. In the meantime, you can read more from the Australian Finanical Review here.

Industry Minister Ed Husic says he is deeply concerned about the attack on Ninette and Philip Simons at their Perth home, allegedly by former detainee Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, 43, who was released after last year’s landmark High Court ruling.

Speaking on ABC spruiking the government’s $1 billion budget announcement towards an Australian project to build the first useful quantum computer, Husic said ministers would have more to say about the couple who were attacked.

“We are deeply concerned about what we have seen. We have had to respond to a court decision that required the release of those detainees and put in place measures to be able to protect the Australian public as much as we possibly can,” he said.

“Clearly, we will have more to say about this but [we] feel deeply for Ninette, for what they have gone through and again, we will take every step required of us.”

Husic accused the Coalition of playing politics in March when it blocked the government’s latest tranche of legislation which would jail people who refused to return to their birth country because they feared persecution.

“When we have measures that we want to take to deal with some of the issues that are being raised, and then the Coalition opts for political brinkmanship as opposed to working with us to get this sorted, I think that speaks volumes about their lack of care,” Husic said.

The violent home robbery of an elderly Perth couple, allegedly by a man released from immigration detention as part of a controversial High Court ruling, is a disaster, says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Yesterday, this masthead revealed Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan, 43, was one of three men accused of an attack on Ninette and Philip Simons at their home in Girrawheen, in Perth’s northern suburbs, on April 16.

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Speaking on Nine’s Today program this morning, Dutton said the government needed to be more transparent about how it was managing released detainees after the landmark High Court ruling found indefinite immigration detention was illegal.

“Sadly, it’s victims like we’ve seen in Perth … who are paying the price for the incompetence of the Albanese government and the two ministers. Minister [Andrew] Giles and Minister [Clare] O’Neil are missing in action,” Dutton said.

“They should be on your program this morning explaining what’s happening and apologising and giving you an assurance that it won’t happen again.”

Senator Jacqui Lambie has questioned how a man released from immigration detention was able to allegedly commit a violent home invasion in Perth, leaving a woman with horrific injuries.

On April 16, three men, including Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan – who was released from immigration detention after a recent High Court ruling – allegedly posed as police officers when they entered the home of couple Ninette and Philip Simons.

Ninette Simons was savagely assaulted in her home.Credit: Police Media

Philip, 76, said the group tied him up while Ninette, a 73-year-old cancer survivor, was assaulted. The men left with $200,000 worth of jewellery and other items.

The federal government rushed through laws to impose curfews and electronically monitor detainees after the High Court found last year that indefinite detention for detainees who could not be deported was illegal. The electronic monitors are still being rolled out.

“They broke their curfew, so that would have been the first warning they should have been put behind bars,” Lambie said on Today.

“Why is he out on the street? That poor lady is going to be shaking every time she opens the front door … to go through that psychologically, it’s going to take her a lot to try and get through this.”

Read more on this story here.

The federal and Queensland governments will sink $1 billion into an emerging high-technology company to build the world’s first commercial-scale quantum computer as part of Anthony Albanese’s Future Made in Australia agenda.

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The project, which will result in US-based company PsiQuantum establishing its Asia-Pacific headquarters at Brisbane Airport, promises to generate 400 jobs and billions of dollars in infrastructure investment as it seeks to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer.

But the prime minister will argue the benefits could be even larger, citing Boston Consulting Group estimates that Australia’s GDP would swell by $48 billion and 240,000 jobs would be added to the economy by 2040.

Albanese, who has so far outlined only parts of the government’s Future Made in Australia policy, said the PsiQuantum project could make the country a technology manufacturing powerhouse.

Quantum computers use quantum physics to store data and perform calculations. Experts believe they could solve some problems much faster than standard computers.