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No advantage to knowing it in AU over 000. It is handy to know for
when abroad though:<br>
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scroll rgb(255, 255, 255);">112—International standard emergency
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font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Triple Zero (000) is Australia's primary telephone number
to call for assistance in life threatening or time critical
emergency situations. Dialling 112 directs you to the same Triple
Zero (000) call service and does not give your call priority over
Triple Zero (000).</p>
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font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">112 is an international standard emergency number which can
only be dialled on a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>digital
mobile phone</em>. It is accepted as a secondary international
emergency number in some parts of the world, including Australia,
and can be dialled in areas of GSM network coverage with the call
automatically translated to that country’s emergency number. It
does not require a simcard or pin number to make the call, however
phone coverage must be available (any carrier) for the call to
proceed.</p>
<p style="margin: 0em 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.6em;
font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">There is no advantage to dialling 112 over Triple Zero
(000). Calls to 112 do not go to the head of the queue for
emergency services, and it is not true that it is the only number
that will work on a mobile phone.</p>
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font-size: 12px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto;
text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Dialling 112 from a fixed line telephone in Australia
(including payphones) will not connect you to the emergency call
service as it is only available from digital mobile phones.<br>
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(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.triplezero.gov.au/Pages/Usingotheremergencynumbers.aspx">http://www.triplezero.gov.au/Pages/Usingotheremergencynumbers.aspx</a>)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/03/16 10:49, Mark Andrews wrote:<br>
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In message <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:CAOu9xNJNsMst_pjwFqwRsY9DEfoF1NH+f-JVqELe+1AGJv1duw@mail.gmail.com"><CAOu9xNJNsMst_pjwFqwRsY9DEfoF1NH+f-JVqELe+1AGJv1duw@mail.gmail.com></a>
, Robert Hudson writes:
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Both should work. The general population has no idea of 112 (which should
work in any country in the world, in any carrier).
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112 is taught about in lots of places. If you do a first aid course
you will almost certainly also be taught about 112 as part of how
to contact authorities to get help to you using a mobile.
A large proportion of the Australian population knows about 112.
Mark
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