ASX Outage Reveals Deeper Failures in Market Infrastructure

When Australia's share market operator can't publish company announcements for more than two hours on a Monday morning, it's not a minor glitch, it's a structural concern. The ASX's announcement platform outage this week affected around 80 stocks, blocked the release of market-sensitive information and forced companies such as Metcash into trading halts mid-results call.

And critically, it's not an isolated event. It's the latest in a series of operational failures that now raise real questions about governance, technological capability and the reliability of the country's key market infrastructure.