Dr. Margaret Stanley:

The private sector has a part to play in this. We want to try to have a whole-of-government approach to this but it may be better to say that we want a whole-of-society approach given the nature of the maritime domain. A lot of people are working privately at sea who have access to a wealth of information and can observe things. There are potential ways through this strategy to develop a better way of sharing information, networking together and improving how we conduct exercises. I mentioned that we have undertaken exercises to look at how we would react to these sort of hybrid threats. These cross-government exercises may need to include elements of the private sector or industry to have a full understanding of what is going on and how we can we work together to improve our overall security.