Australian PM Urges People to Remain Patient Amid IT Outage Aftermath

The prime minister also said Australians should be ‘proud’ of the way state and federal governments and the business community responded to the incident.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 7, 2023. Martin Ollman/Getty Images

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.