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Deploy AI as defence against attacks like Medicare hack - AFR
Why it matters
The article addresses Australia's cyber-defence posture in the context of critical-infrastructure vulnerability (exemplified by the Medicare breach). Strengthening AI-based cyber-defence capabilities directly reduces exposure to coordinated state-level attacks and supports industrial-base resilience—both material to strategic preparedness in a contested Indo-Pacific environment.
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