Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Cyber Security) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question and note his strong and continued interest in Australia's national security.

I must say it is a pleasure to get a question on national security, and I look forward to a few more questions from those opposite—also on economic security, because it seems to be when it comes to national security and economic security there is very little interest on that side.

Not so on this side, and especially when it comes to the member for Deakin. I congratulate him on his appointment to the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security, and in particular his role in chairing that. It is an incredibly important committee. It does great bipartisan work on the national security agenda, and I know he will do an outstanding job in heading that committee.

It is also incredibly important that we focus on the national security threat of cyber.

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