Senate debates

Monday, 26 September 2022

Questions without Notice

Cybersecurity

2:17 pm

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I think it's somewhat ironic that we have a member of the opposition questioning this government's approach to cybersecurity. Let's not forget that when the opposition was in power, only one in four Commonwealth entities met the essential eight cybersecurity obligations in 2021, according to the Audit Office. The then government, now opposition, released a ransomware bill one year after the opposition released a discussion paper calling for a ransomware strategy. I think any independent observer would recognise a good performance—(Time expired)

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