Liberal Senator Kerrynne Liddle reiterates a claim that an Australian died during a Telstra communications outage, while police question the basis of her statements. The senator previously said her office received information about a death after a failure to connect to “Triple Zero” during an emergency, and she now says she has further information to support her position. Police have not accepted the claim as presented and have launched an investigation into the report, according to the accounts. The controversy has also drawn criticism directed at the senator for publicly discussing the family’s situation and grief. One report says police condemned the airing of the family’s circumstances in public, while also indicating that the senator’s assertions are under scrutiny. The issue centres on whether the alleged outage affected access to emergency services, and on how the senator’s office received and communicated information about the incident. The investigation aims to determine what happened and whether the reported connection between the Telstra outage and the emergency response is accurate.