The owner of Harvey Norman has come out in support of Optus claiming it’s “un-Australian” to kick the company while it’s down after the service providers widely-criticised national outage.

Gerry Harvey says what happened to Optus could happen to any business.

“You get a situation where you’re the CEO of a public company, and it could happen to any public company, the CEO doesn’t run the IT department,” he told Gary Adshead.

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