We now know that Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin has resigned after the network outage. It has generally been welcomed but we should be concerned. Singtel the parent company has welcomed her resignation but it was Singtel that was responsible for supplying the software that allegedly caused the outage. What this highlights is an important weakness in our corporate system. As more and more Australian corporations are subsidiaries of global corporations we find that our companies are Australian in name only. This in turn means that in a climate of deregulated capitalism our sovereignity is at risk for decisions concerning our vital infrastructure are made in boardrooms over which we have no control.

Hi BAYGON,

The resignation of Optus CEO - Ms Bayer Rosmarin
should not be surprising.

This mess shouldn't be about any individual CEO.
It should be as you point out making sure that
millions of Australians have access to the
essential services that they need. Such as being
able to call 000 in an emergency, having access to
government services. Being able to make and take
essential payments. Being able to contact family
and loved ones and so on.

The Senate needs to examine solutions such as
stronger regulations for telecommunications companies.

The government needs to know exactly what went wrong
and how to fix it - and do it quickly so that it
doesn't happen again.

Who cares, apart from Optus customers: all of whom didn’t get the message when Optus allowed their personal details to be disclosed. Not very bright to continue using such a company.

I suggest that, rather than “welcome” the CEO's resignation, the parent company ‘suggested’ it. The lady is not a good look for the women-can-do-everything-better-than-men brigade.

The “weakness in our corporate system” is stakeholder capitalism and getting involved in politics. Unlike real politicians, these dipsticks can be pulled into line by customer boycotts. The market sorts them out, not regulation and Big Brother communism.

The lesson for everybody in this technological ballsup is KEEP CASH.

Hi BAYGON,

Optus has had problems.

It suffered a massive data breach last year that affected
10 million Australians and which resulted in 10,000
customer's medicare cards, passports, driver's licences
being stolen and leaked online.

Now 14 months later Optus was hit by a 12 hour outage
that prevented more than one third of Australians from
accessing the internet and receiving cell service.

We're told that more than 200 emergency calls could not go
through to the triple zero line.

All this certainly demands government investigation when
so many have been affected.

Doing nothing is not a viable option for a responsible
government.

The CORRUPT LIBERAL POLITICIAN Big Nose Gladys, her name has been put forward as a possible replacement! Would she run Optus in the same way as she ran the NSW Government through pillow talk with "Lover Boy" Daryl? We don't need a corrupt politician like Berejiklian running anything, let alone a large telco!

ACT Greens member Johnathan Davis has been stood down after allegations he engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships with a teenage boy of legal age and a minor.

Looks like another senior green paedophile, the second one called Jono.

Green, like anyone else, is innocent until proven guilty.

Oh, hang on: that’s not what the Left believes, is it?

Not so much of a technical issue as it is a mentality one !

Back to Optus. It's nothing to do with us who the next CEO is; it is nothing to do with plebs that these people don't know exist. Did you note the Disney-like mansion that the outgoing piece of plastic lives in?

I'm currently reading a book set in the late 18th. Century: mad King George days, when workers were starting to be replaced by machinery. There were the 'masters' and the rest, who had one set clothes and mainly bread to eat - when the could afford it. No democracy. Hangings and floggings at the whim of the few.

As I read, I can't help but compare it with where the 21st. Century 'masters' might be taking us. It is often said that democracy and the good times we've had over the last seven of eight decades has been an aberration - not the real nature of things. That might be right.

Optus, I thought was a well-known telecommunications
company owned by Singapore (Singtel). Many subscribed
to the network for a variety of reasons, I guess. We're
with Telstra - Australian owned. And we've never had
any problems. There's a Telstra shop nearby - and the
staff are great. No complaints thus far. Fingers-
crossed.

I guess this recent outage of Optus - just goes to show
how reliant we are on telecommunications these days.
Hopefully, the Senate investigations that apparently are
currently going on will let people know what happened and
what needs to be done to lessen the risks of it
happening again (if that's possible).

As for the former NSW Premier being appointed to the job
of CEO? I think she's already involved with Optus
professionally. Whether she gets the appointment - will
depend on how well Optus thinks she's currently performing.
Singapore may also want to appease the Australian government
by appointing a local as CEO - or it may be part of a deal
made with the government? Who knows? In any case - it would
be good if one of our own was to be appointed - instead of
like qith QANTAS and the previous bloke from overseas.

I'm a firm believer in supporting our own.

We are constantly told by our betters that we need more women in senior positions in big business. Yet when irrational community anger requires, the community goes after women who have made it with some relish and joy.

I've yet to see anyone decrying the loss of yet another accomplished women.

She's a scapegoat and no one seems to be the least concerned about that.

I guess many people are more concerned about having
access to the essential services that they need rather
than worrying about any CEO - male or female.

Something needs to be done about Berejiklian. She resigns in disgrace. There's talk of corruption. She hasn't been charged with anything. Despite all this, someone suggests she could be Optus CEO.

What a typically Australian pantomime! No regard for justice or common decency, just innuendo and slander. It must be hard for the woman herself, and it is certainly not satisfactory for the public she represented and who paid her way, and are still paying her pension.

The former NSW Premier was found to be corrupt.
However she wasn't found to have committed any
criminal offences. Therefore charges were not
brought against her. Apparently there's a
difference in law - between corruption and
criminality.

The poster who is fixated with paedophiles and paedophilia strikes again, he's made hundreds of postS about the subject on this forum. He has an unhealthy fascination with it, as he's been told several times by different posters. What that has to do with the topic of 'Optus CEO Resignation', I fail to see the connection. The corrupt Liberal Berejiklian, so named as corrupt by the NSW ICAC, is relevant to the topic as her name was put forward as a possible replacement.

I have no truck what so ever with rock spiders, be they in the Greens, the Catholic Church, anywhere else, or they be the recently convicted Coalition MP from WA James Hayward. Who disgustingly sexually interfered with a 6 year old girl for a period of 2 years. p/s Hayward aged 54, sat in parliament and piously voted on child sex exploitation legislation whilst at the same time getting his rocks off with a 6 year old girl! When exposed Hayward told his wife he was going to commit suicide, UNFORTUNATE HE DIDN'T.

" many people are more concerned about having
access to the essential services"

As if changing the CEO will make the slightest difference or that the CEO had anything to do with a failed software upgrade.

We used to sacrifice virgins to ward off those things we didn't understand. It now seems any women will do. People were angry and wanted a sacrifice. I wonder whether a bloke would have been treated so callously.

The village idiot is keen to sweep all the stories about Paedophiles in the Green party under the carpet. I would say that this is even more unhealthy.

VI is far more interested in the minor transgressions in other parties than the steaming turds in his.

YOU BROUGHT UP THE SUBJECT (YET AGAIN)

Now, according to shonkyminister, sexually interfering with a 6 year old girl for 2 years, by JAMES HAYWARD (54) COALITION MP, former "Pastor" in some wacko "church" and trusted friend of the family, is nothing more than a "minor transgression" The rock spider got 2 years and 9 months jail! Wow, what is this bloke thinking? Where is HE on the spectrum? All paedophiles be they in a political party, a church, Boys Scouts, school should be dealt with by the full force of the law, not let of as just committing a "minor transgression" as some would have it!

Village idiot,

LIAR, Stop lying about what I said. You are a LIAR and a Fraud

This shadowminister, brings up the subject of paedophilia yet again on the forum, he made the following admission in relation to his comments on "Paedophiles in the Green party" having firstly raised the subject here, on this unrelated topic, his favourite forum subject which has nothing to do with what is being discussed.

According to shadowminister the acts of paedophilia by the convicted child molester James Hayward of the WA National Party was nothing more than a "minor transgressions in other parties". According to this shadowminister a 54 year old man sexually interfering with a 6 year old girl for 2 years and being refereed to by the judge in the case when sentencing to 2 years 9 months imprisonment, as a "serious offence has been committed", its noting more than a "minor transgression"...INTERESTING to understand the character of the poster. There are those, who for the own reasons, are soft on this kind of thing. For me, throw the book at the bastards, and I don't care what political party, church, Boys Scouts etc, etc they are in!

Village idiot,

You are a LIAR and a FRAUD,

Where did I say that Hayward's crime was a minor transgression? You liar

Another "minor transgression". Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has accuse the opposition of being weak on community safety, having this week voted against a law that would prevent the paedophile at the centre of the High Court case which led to his release, a person who Peter Dutton approved a visa for when he was minister from going near schools.

"On Monday we saw the opposition, led by the leader of the opposition, come into the parliament and vote to protect paedophiles over children," O'Neil told parliament on Wednesday.

Village idiot,

Lying again I see.

Albozo should include preventing all greens from going within 200m of schools to protect Australians.

"The systemic failures attached to the release of more than 100 criminals from immigration detention is hard to fathom. How any remotely competent government could find itself in the position Labor did on this issue is difficult to understand.

The High Court ruled the indefinite detention of stateless people was illegal. Nothing wrong with that; plenty of us would agree. The problem is what followed: a large number of detainees suddenly held illegally, because of the ruling, need to be released. This mightn’t be a problem were it not for the rap sheets most have: murderers, rapists and child sex offenders, with convictions rather than mere allegations. It’s bad.

The job of politicians in a democracy is to have new legislation at the ready to avoid a High Court judgment in one case having a cascading effect across the board, leaving citizens exposed.

So why is Labor so profoundly incompetent in the way it managed the fallout from the High Court decision? Because it wasn’t ready for it and has had to play catch-up. It didn’t have plans in place to respond swiftly to ensure dangerous criminals didn’t simply walk freely among us.

We have heard all manner of excuses why from Labor: the advice from the public service was that the court would go the other way; you can’t legislate around court decisions; circumventing the outcome was attempted but failed. It is a conga line of spin or outright misrepresentations and none of it answers how it could be that the government didn’t have a plan B, C or D to prevent what transpired.

This whole mess didn’t happen without warning. Long before the final judgment was handed down, in a procedural hearing Justice Jacqueline Gleeson flagged to the government the likelihood of what was about to happen. In other words, the government was warned and given time to do something, anything, to find a legal way to prevent what transpired."

shonkyminister,

"The job of politicians in a democracy is to have new legislation at the ready to avoid a High Court"

What rubbish, government should have in place a mountain of legislation at the ready just in case there is a High Court ruling.

In this case the Government put forward legislation to prevent a dangerous alien paedophile, who Dud Dutton as minister had previously grated a visa to so he could stay in Australia. The legislation was designed to prevent this dangerous alien paedophile from going near school children, Dud Duton and the Noalition voted against that legislation. When minster Dutton could have easily denied this dangerous paedophile a visa, and deported him, why didn't he. As I said "tough" man Dutton talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk!

Village idiot,

You are lying again, the pedo (not a green this time) was not granted a visa by Dutton. Dutton permitted him to apply for a visa. I believe it was because he faced execution if deported.