Telstra outages and service status in Wellington, New South Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Wellington, New South Wales

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Wellington, New South Wales and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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Telstra Issues Reports Near Wellington, New South Wales

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Wellington and nearby locations:

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  Jane Rayner (@janer98) reported 11 minutes ago from Wellington, New South Wales

  Have had 3 phone call from NBN landline scammers in the last week. If anyone has got a relative with a landline, tell them to hang up & ring Telstra. They've been ringing from an 02 number, but it's bound to be generated elsewhere.

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  Jane Rayner (@janer98) reported 44 minutes ago from Wellington, New South Wales

  @Triplejay58 @noplaceforsheep Not if 'Scum can help it. Would have been all prepared to go the big, fat gloat, but now will need to pull is big, fat head in. Muttonhead too. Economy in the sub basement on life support, debt as high as the Telstra Tower, interest rates lying on the floor. AFP raids.

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  dixy (@DorothyDixer12) reported 6 minutes ago

  2024 Telstra Announcement 2026 Telstra still having issues

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  💧Daren Connor 🇦🇺 (@connor_daren) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Telstra you send me messages to say the network is having issues & use wifi calling but if the network is having issues which affects my devices then how the hell do I use wifi calling when there’s no network? How long will this be going on? This is the 4th day of these messages

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  🌸 Rita Gee ♥ 🇦🇺 (@Riogallica) reported 11 minutes ago

  My @NBN has been down since 9am & they won't come to fix issue till Monday - 4 days (2nd time in 2 wks)! My Telstra hotspotting is weak. Time to hook up with @starlink Issue here is local installer charges an arm/leg etc to install sys on roof etc. I may have to suck it up.

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  abagrund (@abagrund) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Buttermarg2 @EVERALDATLARGE At least when Telstra sucks **** now I don't have to pay for it.

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  Josh (@joshatticus) reported 16 minutes ago

  GRRR IS TELSTRA DOWN AGAIN MY DATA ISN'T WORKING

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  🐏 (@princefishey) reported 19 minutes ago

  @aphexnaim CLASSIC VLINE last time i went to the city it was when the telstra outage messed all the trains up

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  afraid_au (@afraid_au) reported 20 minutes ago

  @AirsKeaton Nothing yet, I've tried contacting Telstra but because I'm not a Telstra customer they won't even talk to me.

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  Mr.MojoRisn (@Totally4yeah) reported 21 minutes ago

  @DHughesy Aaron’s post is pure projection dressed up as wit. Dave Hughes—a comedian—got some Future Fund details wrong in a short clip (confusing it with debt, implying it was spent on GFC stimulus). Aaron then spent weeks delivering multi-thousand-word “corrections,” only to pivot, when Dave pointed out the Fund’s growth came almost entirely from Howard/Costello’s $60-64 billion seed (no further public contributions to the core fund after early Rudd), into the classic Labor-adjacent playbook: invent a payday conspiracy and declare victory. Facts Aaron keeps soft-pedalling: •The Future Fund was created by the Coalition with surplus cash and Telstra proceeds precisely to cover unfunded public-sector super liabilities that sit outside headline net debt. Its growth to ~$270-330 billion (including other managed vehicles) is investment returns, not ongoing Labor largesse. •Net debt added since 2007: Rudd/Gillard ~$190 bn, Coalition governments ~$366 bn (much of it pre-COVID), Albanese so far ~$75 bn. Absolute numbers do not support the “Labor alone ruined everything” narrative, but neither do they support Aaron’s selective framing that treats Coalition debt as somehow less real. •Australia’s GFC stimulus was borrowed, not raided from the Fund, and helped avoid recession—true—but that doesn’t erase the subsequent spending trajectory under both sides. Aaron boasts of criticising Labor on social-media bans, Comcars, Anika Wells, etc., yet his energy is overwhelmingly reserved for policing anyone who questions the post-2007 debt/spending record or the Albanese government’s performance. When those corrections land, the immediate response is “you must be paid by Labor/taxpayer.” That’s not analysis; it’s the standard deflection of someone whose default is to treat fiscal criticism of Labor as illegitimate. Kerry Packer’s line worked because Bond overpaid then collapsed. Here, the only collapse is the repeated refusal to concede that a comedian’s imperfect summary of economic history does not require a full-time unpaid opposition research unit. Knowing things is indeed useful. So is noticing when the fact-checker’s intensity and ad-hominem default look a lot more like advocacy than neutral accounting.

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  Colin Richardson (@RichoColin) reported 26 minutes ago

  @DHughesy @aaronsmith Saying "governments waste money" is easy, but the real problem is every government since has refused to raise revenue to match spending. Howard-Costello rode a mining boom and sold Telstra; they didn't solve the structural problems.

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  Uptimus (@UptimusApp) reported 29 minutes ago

  Aug 06, 2026 at 01:45 UTC: Uptimus is currently monitoring Telstra stability. Reports have returned to normal levels, and we are verifying system performance before resolving.