CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE — IS COMMUNICATIONS REALLY PART OF IT? Ian Miller*
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Recent communications failures should cause everyone to stop and think about whether our governments, public safety agencies, industry and the public in general really understand whether our communications systems are being treated as critical infrastructure.
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or many years there have been submissions to government at many levels attempting to gain recognition that communications are an essential part of our daily life, and that they must be treated as part of critical infrastructure. Geoff Spring, an Honorary Fellow and Senior Industry Advisor at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS) and a Project Officer for the Australian Radio Communications Industry Association (ARCIA), has been making submissions and representations to multiple government committees of inquiry pointing out the criticality of our public
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