It may have been five days since Stephen Rue began what has become a rite of passage for Optus chief executives – helming the company through a national scandal and weathering calls to stand down.

Observing the tragic saga with a possible tinge of nostalgia is Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, who oversaw her fair share of calamity during her time as Optus top dog.

Rosmarin left the telco in November 2023, two weeks after a nationwide outage that downed phone and internet services for more than half a day, and a year after a cyber attack-induced outage caused widespread chaos.

Bayer Rosmarin is keeping her distance from this latest fire, responding to questions from this masthead about the latest scandal with a dead bat: “I think it’s ultimately a matter for the existing management and board, and I

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