Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister. I would like to now move on to another matter. On 13 June the Australian National Audit Office released a report entitled Internet Security in Australian Government Agencies. Again, the Department of Finance and Public Administration will hopefully play a key role in implementing the recommendations of that report. Is the minister aware of the report and is he aware of what happened to a very similar report which the ANAO released in 2001 which made essentially the same sort of recommendations five years ago that we have seen from the report this week? What steps did the department take to implement the 2001 report, which the ANAO finds largely were not implemented, and what steps will the department take to ensure that the 2006 report is actually implemented so that we cannot expect to see another report in 2011 making the same recommendations that they did 10 years previously?

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