Home Affairs in the dark on handpicked $23m ‘Cyber Wardens’


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The Australian government’s cyber experts were not consulted on the awarding of a $23 million grant to an industry body without tender to train thousands of “cyber wardens”, while Treasury has yet to detail how it managed any conflicts of interest in awarding the grant without a competitive process.

In the May Budget the Albanese government allocated $23.4 million to Treasury for a small business cyber wardens program to be …

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