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Government drags its heels on network resilience to disasters
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English - May 28, 2023 19:23 - 4 minutes - 4.38 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Papers show the government has been dragging its heels when it comes to making phone and internet networks more disaster proof.
At one stage it was told to survey vulnerable bridges, but within three years floods had severed fibreoptic cables not once but twice.
Law changes crucial to giving the government any sort of real power have been delayed yet again.
Reporter Phil Pennington spoke to Craig McCulloch.