Liberal senator Sarah Henderson has announced she will be moving to establish a senate inquiry into the triple 0 failure tomorrow:

This inquiry is vital to uncovering the truth about went wrong with this critical service.

After misleading Australians about when her office first knew about the outage, Labor’s hapless Minister for Communications, Anika Wells, must also appear before the inquiry. It is incumbent on the minister to do the right thing in the national interest and give evidence. 

The role of the minister in safeguarding the integrity, resilience and public confidence in the triple-0 system is central to our inquiry.

The government’s inquiry by its own regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, is woefully inadequate and riddled with conflicts of interest. At the behest of the minister, ACMA delayed tougher emergency call service rules on carriers by six months and this has had serious consequences.

The Australian people deserve much better than this.