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MUA Submission to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
In this submission we agreed that an uplift in security and resilience across critical infrastructure sectors may be necessary to ensure that businesses benefit from strengthened protections to the networks, systems and services we all depend on.
We submitted that the key to any uplift in security and resilience is proportionality, particularly in relation to impacts on workforces and their human rights, transparency around the reasons for such an uplift, and the way it is managed and regulated.
We noted that along with failure in energy systems, failure in any part of the transport and logistics system, particularly ships and ports, can have almost immediate consequential impacts through the supply chain, impacting on many businesses and households. We submitted however that the Bill has seriously underestimated the criticality of ships, shipping and sea freight corridors as critical infrastr