FOI archive

These records show that DPAC engaged the Australian Computer Society (ACS) in 2023-24 and 2025 to align Tasmanian State Service cyber and digital roles with SFIA standards. While they outline planned skills assessments, gap analyses, workforce roadmaps, and career pathways, they also confirm the initiative received neither an independent review nor a value-for-money evaluation.

This decision records the OAIC's response to a request testing whether it asked Qantas about specific pre-breach warnings on Salesforce social-engineering threats. The OAIC found no documents within the exact scope after searching its case-management and records systems, but confirmed that its enquiries canvassed Qantas's awareness of security risks before the incident where relevant to APP 11.

The released OAIC case-file register lists 48 records from its preliminary inquiries into the 2025 Qantas data breach, including information requests, Qantas responses, internal assessments, draft reports, clearance correspondence and closure material. It exposes the inquiry's documentary trail and timing without releasing the underlying records.

These records cover the $4.99 million Cyber5050 grant led by CyberCX under the Building Women's Careers Program. They include the grant-outcomes submission and ministerial event briefs describing the project's six initiatives, delivery period, partners and public messaging, providing a source record of how the program was framed and presented to ministers.

These records show how Treasury briefed ministers and Parliament on the $11.1 million Small Business Cyber Resilience Service delivered by IDCARE. They describe its prevention, recovery and case-management functions and track reported activity from more than 200 businesses in late 2024 to more than 3,400 engagements by June 2026.

The released ministerial submission sets out the government's internal framing of progress under Horizon 1 of the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy and the move toward Horizon 2. It provides a source record for testing how performance, outcomes and next-stage priorities were presented to ministers.

These records show how the $22.995 million Cyber Wardens grant was designed, delivered and evaluated. They document a strong emphasis on enrolments, course completions and self-reported intentions, while providing little evidence that participating businesses implemented stronger security controls.

These records trace AustCyber's effort to design a national professionalisation and accreditation framework through the ACSP. They reveal the participating organisations, consultation methods, proposed model and evidence used to claim industry support.

The grant agreement defines what the Australian Government funded the CyberPath consortium to design, promote and pilot. It provides a public baseline for comparing the scheme's promised governance, safeguards and deliverables with industry concerns and what the pilot eventually produces.

These records cover the publicly funded workforce forecasting project that became AUCyberExplorer. They show how its workforce estimates and demand projections were produced and later used to support the case for professionalising Australia's cyber workforce.

The release documents the government's rationale for a $1.9 million grant to pilot cyber workforce professionalisation. Although heavily redacted, it shows the intended market intervention, expected outcomes and assumptions used to justify accreditation as a response to workforce problems.