Telstra outages and service status in Ballina, New South Wales

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

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

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

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  Mark Douglas (@mfd253) reported 8 minutes ago from Lennox Head, New South Wales

  @Telstra 5G internet has been down most of the day in Lennox Head (2478) - when will it be back up and why does it always go down when we get heavy rain!!???

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  Ray Wilton (@raywilton4) reported 21 minutes ago from Lennox Head, New South Wales

  @lachiemc64 I’m told we’ve no choice now FRAUDBAND is in our area. So much for lnp’s free market bullshit. Only when it suits their greedy parasitic mates. ADSL, though slow, never drops out although I note Telstra will still charge like the “Light Brigade” to fix the loose copper to my home

Telstra Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mr.MojoRisn (@Totally4yeah) reported 2 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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  Nicole Kennedy 🇦🇺 (@kennedylnicole) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Telstra I have requested cancellation of a service on four separate occasions, yet continue to be charged multiple times. This morning your chat team again asked whether I wish to cancel it. Please confirm the cancellation under reference 130242508 and address my complaint 136862308 at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

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  🐏 (@princefishey) reported 7 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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  SonicHacki (ConcordeHacki) (@SonicHacki) reported 14 minutes ago

  @TennyUnderscore Damn based Telstra

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  Sue Davis (@Sueberry2) reported 14 minutes ago

  @blu_boys @Optus Go Aldi...roll over data, plans from $23, Telstra network, and currently double data on some plans for 6months if you start up before the end of September 2026.

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  GayCarBoys (@GayCarBoys) reported 15 minutes ago

  @ShiannonC did i ever tell you about the time in telstra i got asked if i would have any problem working for a woman boss? that hateful place was rotten to the core

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  Bobby (@roberts_pa97578) reported 15 minutes ago

  @w0tn0t2201 @Telstra I’m the same as you. I’ve never used Telstra and I wouldn’t even use them if they were given away free carrier pigeons.

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  Noah Fence (@birchipboy) reported 22 minutes ago

  @CKMonty Telstra Ford….. never realised they had merged! Haha

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  J (@JtheFur) reported 24 minutes ago

  Hey @Telstra has your mobile network crapped itself again unable to use data anywhere in Geelong at the moment got more for pieces of equipment reporting data failure Starlink not a working time can’t even call you

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  Jonathan Wilson (@jfwfreo) reported 26 minutes ago

  @diana_murphy613 Thankfully in Australia we have competition. I can get internet service from Telstra, TPG, Optus, Aussie Broadband and others.