Sarah Henderson and the unproud history of political own goals

Opposition communications spokeswoman Sarah Henderson great idea To humiliate the government for this week’s Telstra outage. What better to reveal Labor’s mishandling of another telecoms crisis than to call it triple zero? [times]To “test” if it works?

Ah, right: a lot of things would be better. Because a moment’s thought, or failing that, a quick Google will tell you that this is a pretty terrible idea. For once, this It is a crime to use emergency call services improperlyBy either conducting a fraudulent search or, as Armstrong Legal puts it: “by conducting numerous searches without a sufficient basis.”