I was mostly unaffected, except having no mobile phone reception for the entire morning. My work internet and phones are through other companies and we didn’t notice anything. The Boss was out of the office and his mobile is through Three so we couldn’t call him. No great loss. 
The housemate also once called to tell me the power was out. My thought was that as Origin Energy have never issued a bill (after 5 months living here) they finally disconnected us. But it turned out he is an idiot and washing the jaffle maker with it plugged in and it tripped the safety switch…