One of the big spends in the budget is $9.9 billion for the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) over the next 10 years to bolster our cybersecurity and intelligence capabilities.
It's called REDSPICE (which stands for Resilience, Effects, Defence, Space, Intelligence, Cyber and Enablers package) and will see an extra 1,900 jobs created at ASD.
They'll include things like data analysts, computer programmers and software engineers.
In the budget, the government makes it clear the investment is to better equip Australia to defend itself and some of our critical infrastructure from cyber attacks and counteract them.
The government has warned about the possigoing so far as to urge businesses to update their systems to better defend against any future attacksbility of cyber attacks from both China and Russia, .
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