One woman in critical condition after ANU stabbing – as it happened

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Labor looking to develop cybersecurity standards placing onus on companies after major data breaches

The federal government is looking at developing cybersecurity standards – a year on from the Optus data breach – to flip the onus towards companies and developers to keep Australians safe online, AAP reports.

If you’re buying a car seat for a new baby, you go into the store and buy a product off a shelf knowing that it will be safe for use – we don’t see the same thing with digital products.

What we want to do is move towards a world where citizens are not the ones who are having to think about and protect themselves from the cyber threat.

No, we won’t be doing that and nobody has suggested that we should.

I agree with Penny Sharp [the NSW minister for climate change] … she said publicly she doesn’t want to see Eraring stay open a day longer than it needs to or close a day earlier than it has to.

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