If there’s an easy way for a corporation to repair bridges with a government, it’s through enthusiastic participation in its policy objectives. But Optus, for some reason, is trying another tack.
Six months after Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neil publicly trashed Optus’ still-maintained insistence it was the subject of a sophisticated hack (it was actually “quite basic”, O’Neil told the ABC’s 7.30 program), Anthony Albanese last week unveiled the small but on-brand School Student Broadband Initiative.