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I find intriguing the proposed reforms to the CIRMP rules: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/how-to-engage-us-subsite/files/consultation-on-proposed-amendments-to-ministerial-directions-powers-cirmp/consultation-exposure-draft-cirmp-rules.pdf
Because they remind me of the ever-present tension between industry v government over (and for each it is a question of degree) prescriptive versus principles-based regulatory instruments.
A lot of the proposed stuff to flesh out the CIRMP regime makes me wonder why regulated entities didn't already know they _should_ be doing those things as part of a risk-based all-hazards CIRMP.
That said, I'm biased and love explicit supply chain mapping, given my existing work on the same.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ravirockks/116304455298526052
What the corporate governance intervention powers are aimed at reminds me a lot of what Joel Slawotsky warned about in 2020: https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=7d8b1cb2-49c1-3f75-abf7-691d33e6e622
Love the proposed amendments to SOCI pt 3 directions powers: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/how-to-engage-us-subsite/files/consultation-on-proposed-amendments-to-ministerial-directions-powers-cirmp/public-consultation-paper-soci-act-ministerial-directions-reforms.pdf
Especially the bits re intervening in corporate governance at CNI people and mapping supply chains, not least since I have written extensively on the need to map software supply chains feeding CNI and identify systemic risks from/within them (eg https://open.substack.com/pub/atechnolegalupdate/p/crowdstrikes-corporate-citizenship?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web).
While I appreciate the objectives here, I note national security risk arises from:
- incompetent/reckless/aloof corporate officers, rather than just those being agents of foreign powers
- ditto re vendors, especially Western edge device vendors.
Just had a look at the stuff which Home Affairs is consulting on.
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'In 2004, Australia produced fewer than 2,500 tonnes of blueberries and the crop was worth an estimated $24 million.
'By 2024, production had reached 27,500 tonnes valued at more than $500 million.
'Across much of rural-zoned land in New South Wales, intensive horticulture operations are not required to seek development approval (DA) from local government.
'But advocates for a DA requirement said new intensive horticulture farms should be required to consider impacts such as buffer zones for chemical spray drift, traffic management and wastewater treatment.
'The NSW Food Authority announced standards in February requiring farmers growing 2 hectares or more of berries to meet new on-farm requirements and introduced licences for those processing or packing produce for other growers'.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-28/blueberry-boom-regulation-nsw-mid-north-coast/106490330
'More than 100 construction projects across NSW’s hospitals and other healthcare sites are now under the microscope ...
'... a balcony exposed to spores from RPA’s major redevelopment construction site was probably the source of the fungus cluster ...
'Environmental testing and cleaning monitoring failed to meet care delivery standards ... prompting NSW Health Secretary Susan Pearce to order audits across NSW Health’s extensive network of construction projects.
'[The balcony] was accessible to patients on RPA’s transplant ward while construction occurred next door on the hospital’s $940 million redevelopment. At least one of the affected patients used the balcony before it was shut off in late November.
'The report found that CPB managed and monitored emissions at its construction site boundaries, but did not assess the risk to patients’ access to balconies near or above the construction works.
'Its recommendations included updating the hospital’s construction risk assessments and monitoring to include all clinical areas, including air intakes, windows, and balconies, and establishing a formal governance process to monitor and respond to any increase in invasive fungal infections'.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/patient-remains-in-icu-four-months-after-deadly-fungus-cluster-20260326-p5zj19.html
'More than 250,000 homes are affected, stretching from Mosman in the east to Rydalmere in the west, and St Ives in the north. It has limited the amount of drinking water that can be transferred to local reservoirs to meet demand.
'Social media footage shows water surging over the roof of the West Ryde pumping station. Sydney Water said the main burst after a pipe failed, flooding electrical equipment'.
Strenght to Sydney Water response crews.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-residents-told-to-save-water-after-major-water-main-burst-20260326-p5zj0y.html
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'Explosions were heard in the area around the Machzike Hadath synagogue, and police say that was due to gas canisters onboard the Hatzola Northwest ambulances.
'The London fire service said those explosions "caused windows to break in an adjacent block of flats".
'Footage posted on social media appears to show three hooded people pouring gasoline on the vehicles before leaving the scene'.
Considering the significant support for a banned terrorist organisation in Palestine Action in London alone, as well as the spate of physical sabotage incidents against the UK DIB by Pro-Pal entities, I am not certain that this targeting of an essential service for the Jewish community was the work of the IRGC (alone).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-23/jewish-ambulances-explosion-london/106486762
