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

We are building global cooperation to fight the cybercriminals who are attacking not just us but also many other countries with whom we share close relationships. Our government has declared 82 systems of national significance. We've delivered $20 million to make sure those critical assets are protected through the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre. We have imposed tough new rules for cybersecurity across 11 major sectors in the economy and, for the first time, we are bringing coordination to the work of government. We're developing, in close collaboration, a cybersecurity strategy that is going to be really important to making sure we meet our desire to be the most cybersafe country in the world by 2030. Tomorrow we will begin a program of national cyber exercises which will bring together all the actors in the economy to help protect our country.

Cybersecurity is national security. We arrived in government to fix the mess, and we're doing it, but there's a lot more work to be done. (Time expired)

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