[LINK] Telstra to do SMS message

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Tom Worthington wrote:
> At 03:01 PM 2/03/2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> Tom Worthington wrote:
>>>> http://www.theage.com.au/national/telstra-to-send-fire-warning-sms-20090302-8lxv.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Telstra to send fire warning SMS ...
>> ...but from above article, it seems the Victorian Government has 
>> invoked some emergency powers ...
> 
> The state government doesn't have any emergency powers over Telstra; 
> that is a federal matter. But usually the telcos will cooperate in an 
> emergency without a formal instruction. The heads of the federal and 
> Victorian emergency agencies are on a conference panel in front of me at 
> APCOA 2009 the moment, so I guess I could ask them.

The emergency powers were in relation to "ABC Emergency Broadcaster"....

> 
> The Victorians are talking about the new mobile emergency command post 
> they got just before the fires and have put to good use.
> 

The SES has current information here:
<http://www.ses.vic.gov.au/CA256AEA002F0EC7/page/Community+Information?OpenDocument&1=05-Community+Information~&2=~&3=~>

Marghanita
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