Senate Estimates and Political Fallout Ahead

The CEOs of Australia's big telcos have met with Communications Minister Anika Wells after major triple zero outages last month.

It comes as Labor introduces legislation to enshrine the powers of a triple zero watchdog — but have they moved "too slow"? What if "red flags" not acted upon lead to failures this bushfire season?

And politicians on both sides have marked the two-years on from the October 7 attacks, but social cohesion at home still remains fractured.

Brett Worthington and Raf Epstein break it all down on Politics Now.

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