Budget 2019-20 - News, Features, and Slideshows

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• Budget 2019-20: Government revises regional NBN subsidy

  Budget documents reveal the government will revise the cap on its yet-to-be-legislated Regional Broadband Scheme subsidy for the NBN.

• Budget 2019-20: ATO to migrate data centres, boost analytics capabilities

  The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is gearing up to migrate to a new data centre, with the federal budgeting earmarking $70 million over two years from 2018-19 for preparatory work.

• Budget 2019-20: Government seeks to avoid ‘censusfail’ redux

  The government says it will fund efforts by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to avoid a repetition of the 2016 Census debacle, which involved a high-profile failure of its online component.

• Budget 2019-20: Government to create cyber ‘sprint teams’

  The federal government has revealed it intends to create cyber ‘sprint teams’ within the Australian Cyber Security Centre as part of efforts to prevent and mitigate attacks on government networks.

• Government to boost fines for privacy breaches

  The government says it will legislate increase the penalties that can be levied under the Privacy Act to 10 per cent of a company’s turnover, $10 million or three times the value of a benefit obtained through the misuse of information, whichever is greater, up from a current cap of $2.1 million for serious or repeated breaches.