Pressure to conduct a Senate inquiry into the disastrous Optus triple-zero outage which contributed to the deaths of two Western Australians is ramping up on the Federal Government.

A motion by Coalition and Greens Senators is expected to be brought to the Senate on Tuesday, demanding a parliamentary inquiry into “unanswered questions” around the Government’s effectiveness and response to the outage.

It comes a month after a triple zero outage was linked to the deaths of two Perth men, aged 74 and 49, and a 68-year-old woman in Adelaide.

The telco was criticised for allowing the outage to go on for so long without alerting police of the more than 600 calls for triple zero which had gone unanswered.

It was also revealed that when Optus did notify the Federal Minister’s office, the ema

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