Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Cyber Security will establish the eligibility requirements for board members and the expert panel to ensure the board has an appropriate mix of skills, experience and diversity. The eligibility criteria will include a requirement to hold or be eligible to obtain a security clearance and demonstrated qualifications and/or experience in the fields of law, cybersecurity, information security, incident response and crisis management, public administration, critical infrastructure sectoral experience, critical infrastructure regulation or audit and assurance experience. I mentioned that some thought had been given to how board members would handle conflicts of interest, which I'm happy to go into, but we are also proposing here to enshrine the Cyber Incident Review Board in legislation as a way to ensure its independence and enable the board to have powers to gather documents.