Good morning. Peter Dutton has delivered his budget reply speech, focusing on rising power prices and again calling for a discussion around nuclear power. It came hours before the UN warned there was now “no credible pathway” to limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C, the goal set to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.
Two weeks after the Medibank cyber-attack, the question that remains unanswered is: will the company pay a ransom? The hacker claimed to have extracted 200GB of files with data on all of the company’s 3.9 million customers. Richard Buckland, a professor of cybercrime at the University of New South Wales, said the Medibank case was one of the few where a company should pay the ransom, contrary to official advice.
