John Dagge

Melbourne

Deputy Business Editor at The Herald Sun

Jobs / Insolvency reporter at Herald Sun [email protected]

Articles

Optus customers unable to make calls, use internet in major outage

Nov 7, 2023 | thechronicle.com.au | John Dagge |Madeleine Achenza |Sarah Booth |Rebecca Borg

Millions of Optus customers are unable to make calls, texts or connect to the internet after a major nationwide outage. The outage, which emerged about 4am, temporarily halted train services across Melbourne and has affected at least three major Melbourne health services. Optus customers in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth have all been affected. The nation’s second-biggest telco has more than 10 million customers.
Metro Melbourne trains halted by communications outage

Nov 7, 2023 | heraldsun.com.au | John Dagge

Commuters are facing a morning of pain after the entire Melbourne metro train network was stopped due to a communications outage. Early morning commuters turned up at train stations across Melbourne on Wednesday morning to be told trains were not running and it was not clear when replacement buses would be organised. The outage — which impacted every Metro line — came as the Optus network was downed in a major nationwide outage.
What punishment Victorian teachers get for sexually abusing students

Sep 4, 2023 | heraldsun.com.au | John Dagge |Miles Proust

Victorian teacher Monique Ooms has avoided jail for repeatedly having sex with a student after an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against a “merciful” sentence was rejected. Here’s how other cases of teachers sexually abusing students under their care have played out. The Wantirna College teacher blamed loneliness suffered during Covid lockdowns for plying a 14-year-old student with booze and having sex with him.