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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Grievance Debate

Super SA Cybersecurity Incident

Mr COWDREY (Colton) (15:05): What we have seen in question time today are damning revelations from this government. I stress that only on questioning from the opposition have the Premier and the Treasurer revealed what appears to be a significant cyber event and data breach within the South Australian government.

What has the Treasurer told us under questioning today? That he was notified last week. The Premier's office was notified on 12 October, but what communication has been provided to the public? Absolutely nothing. This government is addicted to secrecy. Why did it take the opposition coming in here and asking questions for this matter to come out into the public, into the light? Where was the Treasurer? Where was the Premier? No ministerial statement, no press release, no press conference—nada, nothing, crickets from this government.

The first set of questions that need to be answered are immediate and are about those who have been affected. How many current or former public servants have been affected by this cyber incident? What agencies have been involved? When did the event occur? What data has been compromised? More importantly, what needs to be done to assist those public sector employees who have been affected by this incident?

The second set of questions that the government needs to answer are around who knew what and when and what steps are being taken by the government and the ministers involved—the Premier and the Treasurer—since they found out. What has been laid bare is the Treasurer's rank hypocrisy. In a press release from 2021, the now Treasurer demanded an explanation for a three-day delay, but now the shoe is on the other foot and a week is fine: 'It's fine. Just trust us, nothing to see here, everything is fine.'

This government will be held to account, but the South Australian public needs to understand just how addicted to secrecy this government is and how much further it extends. It extends to the Auditor-General being denied access to appropriate documentation to be able to confirm that approvals have been undertaken in accordance with the law for $20 billion worth of public spend—$20 billion worth of public money—on the biggest infrastructure projects and transactions in the state over the last 12 to 24 months.

Those projects include the new Women's and Children's Hospital, the north-south corridor project, the transfer of land at the Festival Plaza, the Adelaide Aquatic Centre replacement, the Hydrogen Jobs Plan and many, many more. This government needs to come clean because keeping secrets only leads to people asking more questions. More importantly, when you ask questions, the first and paramount one is: what else are they trying to hide from the South Australian people?

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