Thinking of a career in politics? Women's political participation is under threat from escalating online abuse.

Almost 98% of businesses in Australia are small businesses, accounting for one third of GDP. Despite the importance of small businesses to the economy, this sector remains largely vulnerable to cyber-criminals. There have been proposals over many years, by government and others, to help small businesses improve their cyber security and protect their own and their customer’s data. But these efforts consistently fail to bring about a meaningful change, and the outcome is a small business sector hopelessly outgunned in the fight against cybercrime.

Last week's Optus outage was a real 'poor bugger' moment for all who have worked on the telco frontline Are there lessons to be learnt for infrastructure resilience planning for the nation?