Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison
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Australia’s federal budget papers, which dropped on Tuesday night, make it clear just how little attention the government is paying to its cyber policies and to good governance generally.
ZDNet has already reported how most of the Budget was pre-announced, with those previously-announced figures included in the totals of supposedly new spending. In reality, though, it’s even worse.
Yes, the “additional $201.5 million” to help deliver the nation’s disappointing Cyber Security Strategy is just another part of the AU$1.7 billion over 10 years already announced in August.
Yes, the vast majority of that total figure is the AU$1.35 billion cyber kitty for the Cyber Enhanced Situational Awareness…