Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I want to thank my good friend the member for Fraser for his question and thank him for his very commendable representation of his local community. Cybersecurity is something that affects every one of our constituents. It is also one of the most important national security challenges that faces our government. So it was a great pity for us to arrive in government a year ago to find that cybersecurity was in an absolute mess. We had voluntary cyber obligations which barely anyone was meeting. We had a response for cross-government which was completely uncoordinated. We had no meaningful cyber incident response function within the Australian government—absolutely unbelievable.

And it's not surprising, because under the former government we didn't even have a minister for cybersecurity. So, it's not surprising that we ended up where we are.

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