An emergency test message sent out under Australia's AusAlert system failed to reach a number of mobile phone users, prompting complaints from Australians who said they did not receive the alert. The AusAlert system is designed to broadcast emergency warnings to every mobile phone in the country, so gaps in delivery raise concerns about whether people would be reliably reached during an actual crisis such as a bushfire, flood or other disaster.

The article, reported by Daily Mail journalist Burney Wong, gives little further detail on the scale of the failure or the reasons behind it, but confirms that "many Aussies" did not get the test message as expected. It does not specify which telecom providers, regions or phone models were affected, nor what recourse is available to those who missed the alert.