Australian PM Urges People to Remain Patient Amid IT Outage Aftermath

Published on July 22, 2024

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged Australians and businesses to remain patient while the massive global IT outages are fixed. During a press conference on July 22, the prime minister said the government was expected to deal with the “legacy issues” of the outages in the next one or two weeks. This comes after the Australian government had a meeting with security software company CrowdStrike, where the latter informed that it was close to rolling out an automatic fix to the issue with their update. CrowdStrike also said the fix could speed up the recovery process of computer systems across the Australian economy....