Australia must develop digital resilience, experts warn, but it will cost
An ABC News article reports calls for Australia to build digital resilience after global Microsoft outages, with University of Melbourne researcher Andrew Cullen saying the country depends heavily on US tech and could follow France, Germany and Austria toward sovereign digital infrastructure. Experts including Toby Murray and Toby Walsh warn that shifting away from US providers would require significant investment, expect more outages and hacks, and urge organisations to plan contingencies for losing services like email.