No exercise for two years

Coordinating whole-of-government cyber exercises is one of the functions the office inherited in 2019. The Auditor-General recorded that none was held for 2023, and that the last one had been run in two parts in April and September 2021. The office cited the caretaker period, the change of government and reviews of emergency plans. The 2026-2028 Strategy now offers agencies "Exercise-as-a-Service".