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The former chairman of Victoria’s triple-zero service was pressured to resign after asking the state government for a long-term solution to a funding method he said was fundamentally flawed.
Victoria’s triple-zero agency has repeatedly lobbied the state government since 2015 to provide consistent funding to recruit staff and cater for heightened demand, sources say.
Victoria’s triple-zero call service was blindsided by the Omicron emergency after wrongly assuming that COVID-19 infections would keep falling as the Delta wave subsided.
On Monday, two Andrews government ministers were unable to say what Victorians, like Ms Wood, should do in an emergency if their triple-zero call was not picked up.
The Victorian government is injecting an “immediate” $115.6 million (US$85 million) into the state’s Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority ...