Ring landlord and ask? Do you have his contact details?

Ring the emergency number for your real estate, they have procedures for what to do. They'll send someone over straight away and get it sorted, but you want them to be the point of contact for the electrician and what not, not yourself.

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Emergency repairs

Emergency repairs are repairs for:

a burst water service or a serious water service leak
a blocked or broken lavatory service
a serious roof leak
a gas leak
a dangerous electrical fault
flooding or serious flood damage
serious storm, fire or impact damage
a failure or breakdown of the gas, electricity or water supply to the premises
a failure or breakdown of an essential service or hot water, cooking or heating appliance
a fault or damage that makes the premises unsafe or insecure
a fault or damage likely to injure a person, damage property or unduly inconvenience a resident of the premises
a serious fault in a staircase, lift or other common area or premises that unduly inconveniences a resident in gaining access to, or using, the premises

All other repairs are considered to be routine repairs.
Fast facts

A tenant/resident must notify the lessor/agent or manager in writing of the need for an emergency. repair. In an emergency the nominated repairer can be contacted directly if the lessor/agent or manager is unavailable.
If there is a nominated repairer they should be listed on the Tenancy Agreement.
If the lessor/agent/manager or the nominated repairer cannot be contacted, the tenant can arrange a suitably qualified person to carry out the repair. The tenant can pay the repairer themselves and get the money back from the lessor/agent/manager or get the repairer to bill the lessor/agent/manager. They should forward all receipts to the lessor/agent/manager who must pay them back within 7 days.
If the tenant pays for emergency repairs the cost must not exceed the value of two weeks rent.
If the tenant and lessor/agent/manager do not agree about the emergency repairs, or if the lessor/agent/manager has not reimbursed the tenant within 7 days, they can apply to the Tribunal for a ruling.

What do you mean half your house has lost power? Are you sure something hasn't tripped the safety switch?

Energex is just here at the moment, the are two power supply fuses, one has burnt out slightly and the wiring is burnt off so only a partial amount of power sockets are out so they are making it safe but keeping power in the house.

We don't actually go through a real estate, its just private landlord, that's why I'm wondering if its possible to just get an electrician out now to fix the fuse and wire and then let them chase pricing etc with landlord.

What do you mean half your house has lost power? Are you sure something hasn't tripped the safety switch?

It could be a 3-phase.
One phase may have dropped at the pole/pillar leaving the other to phases still functioning.

It could also be an isolated fault on say a light circuit. But you can have a many circuits on one Safety switch.
The problem with this is, as Eorl stated, Half the house can go when it could be isolated to one circuit.

In the past, when we have gone out to emergency jobs, ie, power outage, or no hot water. We don't do any work without the consent of the land lord. and the landlord gets billed.

it all depends on ur relationship with you landlord/real estate.

Yeah guess I'll just keep ringing, for now it's fine as we've just got the fridge running to a power socket that works, only main concern. Thanks all.

Partial loss of power is not an emergency repair.

We don't actually go through a real estate, its just private landlord, that's why I'm wondering if its possible to just get an electrician out now to fix the fuse and wire and then let them chase pricing etc with landlord.

You should still have a lease agreement though, and be covered by the stuff shad posted. And if not, you really should get one, cos it protects your arse from a lot of shit

We do indeed have that on the lease agreement Khel, so all good :) One of the owners came around before and is sending an electrician out tomorrow. All I was really worried about was fridge and whether it was going to start a fire because I could smell burning.

Didn't mean the source of power for the smoke alarm, just that they do indeed work. Dicky electrics while you're fast asleep may unlikely but none the less possibly start a fire.

Yeah he's pretty safe there considering those dicky electrics no longer have any electricity flowing though them.