Govt’s handpicked cyber trainers ask for a recount


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

A $25 million government-funded cyber training program delivered by a Labor-linked consultancy is attempting to reframe its controversial grant at the halfway mark after delivering only a quarter of the agreed graduates.

The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) was handed the funding without tender by the Albanese government in 2023 to engage small businesses and train 50,000 of their staff as “cyber wardens”.

Its program is being delivered …

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