Australia’s emergency management agency is working to identify gaps exposed during last week’s national test of the new emergency messaging system – AusAlert. The AusAlert test – conducted at 2pm AEST on Tuesday – was designed to test the system at a national scale and identify potential issues before it is used in a real emergency. This exceeded the target of 90 per cent,” the NEMA spokesperson told GN. Cell tower operations are a matter for the telecommunications sector,” the NEMA spokesperson told GN. “The number of phones that receive AusAlerts will continue to grow as phones receive the necessary upgrades and older phones are retired.”