Telstra outages and service status in Parkes, New South Wales

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

The chart below shows the number of Telstra reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Parkes, 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 Parkes, New South Wales

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

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  Candy J (@LiveLrnExplore) reported 31 minutes ago from Parkes, New South Wales

  @Telstra This tweet brought to you by me piggy backing off my Optus phones fully functional mobile network data. Eftpos machines are unable to do this. So any work around has to come from Telstra or I have to get the bank to change to Optus.

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  Candy J (@LiveLrnExplore) reported 52 minutes ago from Parkes, New South Wales

  @Telstra Well we are still down, despite multiple resets. The modem doesn’t even switch over to 4G it just sits there with a green light on as if it’s all ok. Yet not working. Can’t even open the troubleshooting pages or gateway.

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Chad (@OTheChad) reported 9 minutes ago

  @mynameiskiiiid @TheKouk Structural deficit? Mate, let's get this straight.Australia's structural budget issues blew out post-GFC and especially under recent big-spending governments — not from Howard paying down $96b in inherited debt while running surpluses. Howard left the budget in strong shape with low debt and a Future Fund seeded. Today's deficits (still projected around 1% of GDP with net debt heading to ~20%+) come from exploding recurrent spending: NDIS, aged care, welfare, and public sector bloat — not a lack of 'productivity policy' from the 90s/00s. Howard-era asset sales (Telstra etc.) shifted assets to private hands where they often delivered better efficiency and innovation — exactly what boosts productivity. Privatisation and microeconomic reforms in the 80s-90s drove Australia's strong productivity surge in the late 90s/early 00s. Blaming today's slump on "record low infrastructure spending" 25-30 years ago is the real stretch. Recent productivity stagnation (labour productivity near flat since ~2016-17, weakest in decades) has clear modern drivers:Services shift — healthcare, education, public admin (non-market sectors) now dominate and have abysmal productivity growth. Faster broadband, transport, and training matter — but governments have poured billions into infrastructure since then (and states still do). The constraint isn't some 1990s "under-spend"; it's getting value for money, avoiding waste, and prioritising high-return projects over recurrent blowouts. Private sector dynamism, competition, and sensible tax settings deliver productivity far more reliably than more government "facilitation" funded by structural deficits. You know what actually restricts productivity policy? Promising endless spending while ignoring incentives, efficiency, and evidence. Structural deficits today crowd out future options through higher interest and taxes — not the other way around." This keeps it punchy, factual, and directly dismantles the causal link while flipping the deficit argument.

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  Mr musk ⭐️🇺🇸🚀 (@Mrmuskh4l5l) reported 9 minutes ago

  @c__future6 This is how the whole thing started when I sent $500 for a VIP Telstra Tesla membership card and never got the Tesla I won! That was my fault and now you’re trying to make this my fault I would think two guys working for Elon Musk would be a little bit smarter than this.

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  Kmac (@check307) reported 13 minutes ago

  Australian Govs of all persuasions have sold the people out. First sold QLD State Gov Insurance, Keating the Commonwealth Bank , Howard Telstra, Beattie Water and we can keep going. Private industry is about profit and no service . We have that and pay exorbitant amounts for it

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  landman (@hasselljpb) reported 16 minutes ago

  Gotta love it when the @Telstra helpline drops out while trying to solve a @telstra issue

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  K•A•N•E (@kanethesaint) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ronInBendigo @RaymondKeown3 The Belong (Telstra) plan is $25 only once you have activated a service with them it will appear when you go to change plans via their app. 10GB data per month with rollover, if you ever exceed it, it doesn't charge extra just slows to 1Mbps.

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  BLUE (@BLUE04699289) reported 20 minutes ago

  @KymRob25112 No idea in Qld. But in Sydney Telstra has sadly become the only option. The complete mess up with triple zero calls ( carrier errors) no mistake in that. The tower's aren't coping with this change. Regional with fewer options. That's harsh. Hope 🙏

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  Paradoxa (@Paradoxa18) reported 21 minutes ago

  dear Telstra thanks for never sending the gadget to connect to wifi years without home net but seems there's an upside

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  💜⚡️🦄 manda 🦄🐨🦘💚💛 (@aussieV8girl) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Teh_Jkr @Optus Look into new customer deals… If you find one that suits cancel your current plan and sign up with a new one. Loyalty gets you nowhere with them OR Telstra they’ve done the same.

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  Rob Arbon (@arbon_rob93103) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SophiaMoermond When John Howard defeated Paul Keating in the 1996 election, Australia's federal debt was $97B. He sold assets (like Telstra) plus set about paying down the debt. The debt was cleared in 2006 and our savings began. The Rudd govt inherited $17B.

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  Stuart Bland (@96Mrbsa) reported 30 minutes ago

  @merkin_about Not as old as me, and I only went to gmail coz Telstra decided to no longer support the system I'd been paying for for years. *****.