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Joint Release - $2.2 Million Funding for Local Government EVs in Melbourne's West
20 September 2024 The Albanese Government’s Driving the Nation Fund will invest $2.2 million to help three local governments in Melbourne’s West integrate electric vehicles (EVs) into their fleets, lowering running and maintenance costs and cutting climate pollution. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) grant will see the rollout of Wyndham City’s Local Council Battery Electric Vehicle Integration Project across Wyndham City, Brimbank City and Moonee Valley City councils.
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2020 CYBER POWER INDEX SHOWS MORRISON GOVERNMENT OVERPROMISED, UNDER DELIVERED ON CYBER
The Morrison Government’s report card on cyber is in according to analysis done by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center in its National Cyber Power Index 2020, released today. The report shows overall Australia ranked 8th for intent but 16th for actual capability, behind Estonia, Israel, and Malaysia. Source: ‘2020 National Cyber Power Index’ Harvard Belfer Center, 9 September 2020 p.
Speech: Adjournment Debate, 17 June 2020
It was 1989 and the world was experiencing the emergence of HIV/AIDS. Exploiting this moment an unstable biologist unleased the world’s first ransomware attack, which is malware that holds IT systems hostage by encrypting files until a ransom is paid. Dr Joseph Popp was ambitious. He sent 20,000 infected floppy disks to medical researchers all over the world, ostensibly containing medical discoveries around the syndrome.
ASIO BOSS WARNS OF HEIGHTENED CYBER THREATS, BUT MORRISON GOVERNMENT’S CYBER SECURITY STRATEGY STILL MIA
While the head of ASIO has today warned that the pandemic has made Australia less safe — as spies, terrorists and cyber crooks exploit fear online — the Morrison Government’s new Cyber Security Strategy is now seven weeks overdue. Australia’s first Cyber Security Strategy was released 21 April 2016, and with a shelf-life of four years. It is yet to be replaced. Despite growing threats, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has left cyber security at the bottom of his in-tray.
National Resilience and Reconstruction After the Pandemic
National Resilience and Reconstruction After the Pandemic COMMSDAY SUMMIT 2020, TUESDAY, 7 APRIL 2020 The world won’t be the same after the pandemic. That includes Australia. This moment is epochal. When the history is written, there’ll be another BC — Before Covid. We are already seeing changes in the relationship between the citizen and the state unheard of outside times of war.
LOWY LECTURE SERIES: DEMOCRACY AND THE AUTHORITARIAN CHALLENGE
NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, CANBERRA THURSDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2020 Working in cyber security today can sometimes feel like being stationed in East Berlin during the Cold War. In recent years, we’ve seen state sponsored hacking groups with exotic names like Cosy Bear, Sandworm and the Lazarus Group successfully hack multinational banks, presidential campaigns and power grids.
First Among Equals - Pollies Are Australian Cyber-Security’s Weakest Link
The 2016 US Presidential campaign will be remembered as the election that made cyber-security a mainstream political issue. The ‘Hacking Election’ transformed Info-Sec from a niche issue for security wonks into a general interest issue of political controversy. Unfortunately, it also showed how far behind the mark most political candidates and elected representatives are when it comes to ‘the Cybers’.
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