Public service: Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has recounted a "surreal Monty Python moment" engaging with the public service while in the top job.
Telecommunications: An Optus spokesperson said "some services across fixed [landline] and mobile are now gradually being restored" at 1pm on November 8.
Glamour: Jack Wighton and long-term partner Monisha Lew Fatt were married at a stunning wedding on Saturday, capping quite the week for the former Canberra Raider.
Services: Canberra hospitals, public schools and emergency services have been left unable to make or receive phone calls, after a nationwide outage took down the Optus network.
Horror crash: A driver who ploughed through a roadside beer garden in regional Victoria, killing five people, is an insulin-dependent diabetic who required immediate treatment at the scene, his lawyer says.
Review: The government has said the report would not be released publicly due to the "strict privacy of protected information" under the government's Health Act.
Health: While Australians still have the third-longest life expectancy in the world, the pandemic lopped 0.1 of a year off the average life span during the period 2020 to 2022.
Sport: The amazing Maxwell, barely able to walk as he hobbled along with a back issue and terrible cramping in Mumbai, somehow still blitzed an unbeaten 201.
