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News about federal government

• Applications open for $50M telco disaster resilience fund

  Individual grants of up to $5 million up for grabs.

• Dept of Health, Aged Care gearing up for new IT services

  Reflecting “contemporary industry trends, approaches and solutions”.

• 1B telco scams blocked over last 12 months

  Over 256 million scam calls and 85 million scam texts caught within the last quarter alone.

• Govt appoints first national cyber security coordinator

  Responsible for leading national cyber security policy, incident response coordination.

• Govt pumps $2B into new digital solutions

  $86.5 million allocated to establish a National Anti-Scam Centre.

• Fed eyes controversial UK disaster alert tech

  Also ponies up $10 million for first responder mobile broadband service.

Interviews about federal government

• Q&A: Xenophon on ISPs, Telstra and the cloud

  Independant senator, Nick Xenophon, talks about filtering cloud computing and Telstra separation