Make a complaint

We strive to provide excellent service, but sometimes we fall short. We appreciate your feedback and are dedicated to resolving your complaint in a timely, fair, and transparent way.

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How to help get the best resolution for your complaint

  1. Gather supporting materials

  2. Choose how you'd like to contact us

  3. Tell us what’s gone wrong

  4. Tell us what you’d like us to do

Ways to make a complaint

The fastest way to make a complaint is to chat with us in the My Telstra app. Your feedback will be picked up and managed by a case manager within one business day. It only takes a minute to get started:

  1. Sign in to My Telstra
  2. Go to ‘Get help’
  3. Select the blue speech bubble
  4. Enter ‘I would like to make a complaint’ to begin the process.

Our complaints team is online Monday to Friday 9am-8pm and Saturday to Sunday 9am-6pm. Make sure you have your notifications turned on so you’ll be notified when we’ve responded.

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Complete our Make a complaint form.

We’ll acknowledge your complaint within one business day and assign a case manager who will contact you in a few days. Once the case is assigned, we aim to resolve complaints within 10 business days. If it takes longer, we’ll keep you updated on our progress until we solve it.

You can also make a complaint:

  • By mail: Post your complaint letter to:
    Telstra Complaints
    Locked Bag 20026
    Melbourne VIC 3001
  • By phone: Contact us on 13 22 00 and say 'complaints'
  • In person: Find a store

Frequently asked questions

When you make a complaint, our complaints handling process (PDF, 109KB) ensures that your issue is acknowledged, reviewed and resolved in a timely manner.

We aim to resolve your complaint within 10 business days, if it takes longer, we’ll keep you updated on our progress until we solve it.

You can appoint an authorised contact or advocate to act on your behalf. Learn more about giving another person access to your account.

If you’re not happy with how your complaint has been resolved, you can:

  • Ask us to escalate the complaint and review the resolution you were offered. This may involve an escalation to the next level of management, or the appointment of a case manager in one of our specialised teams.
  • Make a complaint to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO), go to www.tio.com.au or call 1800 062 058.

You can find more about escalations in our complaints handling process (PDF, 109KB).

If you need to follow up on a complaint you’ve made, but don’t have your case manager’s details, you can contact us to find out more. Make sure you have your billing account number or complaint reference number handy.

Complaints handling reporting

We are committed to resolving complaints for the best possible outcome for our customers. To keep us accountable, our complaints handling performance is regularly monitored and updated.

Additional specialised support

Support for our First Nations customers

Want to speak to someone in your language? We can access interpreter services for approximately 50 different First Nations languages and dialects.

Priority assistance

We offer assistance to customers with life-threatening medical conditions who rely on a working phone service.

Helping you when times are tough

Depending on your level of urgency, we have flexible options that can help keep you connected.

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