The presentation slides of my opening of Next: Tech 2015 hosted by the Institute for Regional Security in Canberra Australia.

1. SECURING
AUSTRALIA’S
TECHNOLOGICAL
INDUSTRY

2. The need to protect Australian Industry and grow it
• Cyber-security as an example. Yet what I will talk to you about rings true for technology writ-
large in Australia
• Australian industry solves Australian problems. Australian solutions are exportable
• I want you to keep in mind that what I’m proposing is possible. Our partners do it, we need to
work with them, not just for them and become equal to them
WHAT ‘AUSTRALIAN’ INDUSTRY?

3. ONE PURPOSE
To protect Australia’s indigenous technological capability as to alleviate certain
security pressures which enable us to become more valuable in our partnerships.

4. WHAT’S AUSTRALIAN ABOUT THIS PICTURE?
IMAGE COURTESY OF 1ST JOINT PUBLIC AFFAIRS UNIT AUSTRALIAN ARMY 2015 – FROM EXERCISE BLUE DIAMOND

5. C.O Here. You don’t tell me that the giant
iPad can’t get the cricket!! Fix it.
Speechless..
IMAGE COURTESY OF 1ST JOINT PUBLIC AFFAIRS UNIT AUSTRALIAN
ARMY 2015 – FROM EXERCISE BLUE DIAMOND

6. QUESTIONS FOR YOU
• Where are the Australian products? What’s so different between our partners and us?
• Attitude? Beliefs? Structural factors?
• How many of these things do we play a central role to? Besides using them?
• Could the national security community function today without them?
• Who’s Australia’s own biggest security player? Government
• Where’s Australian industry as it stands against foreign giants?
If technology is so integral, why shouldn’t we have greater ownership of its influence?

7. PSYCHOLOGY
“Everything psychological, is biological” – “Everything digital, is physical”
• You can’t have one without the other, you need to protect both. Does Australia possess either in its own right?
• Can we do more than afford? Can we, Shape, Make, Influence, Replenish, Advise, Deter or Control?
Inattentional blindness
• Are we unaware of our vulnerability, our dependence, and our ability to contribute other than as a customer
because of our expectations?
• We need to pay attention to the risks in supply, over-reliance and not carrying our weight
• Lacking indigenous Australian cyber capability whatsoever. Strong support, but doing little to change -
dependency

8. STATE OF AFFAIRS TOMORROW
• SME’s being snapped to
serve the purposes of larger
organisations that are more
capable
• Difficult structural conditions
in Australia
• Jobs get filled that’s a fact,
business doesn’t get made,
innovation is out of our hands
• Working for, working with,
working under
STATE OF AFFAIRS TODAY
• SME’s protected and
providing services to Australia
and Partners
• Structural conditions which
encourage investment, innovation
and manufacturing
• Being critical to the system,
not just in terms of intelligence
and signals.
• Leadership and mutual
responsibility. Being a bigger
player, not just a bigger customer
• This will not change: Dependency and symbiosis, it’s the fundamental of Australia’s security, enmeshment

9. THE VALUE OF CHANGE
• Equality between partners
• Giving security to receive security
• Higher value, higher status, higher chances to be secure
• Closer to self reliance and resilience
• Uninfluenced capability, true ownership
• Overcome being victim to international politics
• Being more secure, adding more value to partners: Being indispensable
• Australian solutions for Australian problems
• More to bargain with
• Taking pressure off government alone, shared responsibility with
Australian industry

10. HOW CAN WE CHANGE
Governmental support for industry & protection
Finding niche’s and enjoying quiches
• Quick
• Unique
• Innovative
• Cheap
• Helpful
• Effective
• Secure
Genuine Australian Interest
Working with - not against our partners. It works
for everyone else.
Creating conducive conditions for technology
start ups and creating our own technology
power houses.
Not reinventing the wheel. “Australian high
quality tough”

11. YET THE SYSTEM WORKS, SO WHY CHANGE IT?
A TOUGH QUESTION.