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 software and that sort of network, and I hope that that’s investigated and cleared as not part of the process,” he told Sky News.
“I don’t want to be sort of, you know, conspiracy theorist, startled, startled, startled, but I do think a diligent process is to make sure that there’s nothing malevolent in this.”
Telstra has said it is investigating the cause of the outage, and the government has said it is aware of the issue. There has been no evidence to suggest foreign interference.
