A customer takes care of his shopping next to blue screen at self-checkout terminals of a supermarket in Sydney on July 19, 2024. A large-scale outage wrought havoc on IT systems across Australia, with the country's national broadcaster, its largest international airport and a major telecommunications company reporting issues.
“Flights are currently arriving and departing however there may be some delays throughout the evening,” a Sydney Airport spokesman said. New Zealand said banks and the computer network inside the country’s parliament had also been affected.