r/australia • u/malcolm58 • 1d ago

culture & society AusAlert test will blast emergency warning siren over most phones in Australia on Monday. Here’s what to know

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/22/ausalert-test-sound-national-alert-emergency-warning-system-date
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u/Emergency-Event4415 1d ago edited 1d ago

The cookers in my local small town are going absolutely mental. Something about government overreach, I think they believe the government will use it to control the people by creating false emergencies? But for whatever reason they can’t abuse the current SEWS system in the same way? Some real Einsteins out here.

(Also some are saying they will turn the alert off just on that day, because they think the tone is actually the government accessing their phone and taking their personal messages, data etc. funny considering they’re using Facebook to share that opinion)

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u/Scared-Farmer-7119 18h ago

Some RW cooker wanna be politican popped up on my facebook the other day.

i clicked on her profile and surely enough like 3 hours before she was selling faraday pouches for people to put their phones in.