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By Justin Hendry on Apr 7, 2021 12:40PM As Global Switch migration gets underway. The Department of Home Affairs has struck a new five-year data centre hosting deal with Canberra Data Centres to support its migration from Global Switch’s Sydney-based data centre. The $6.3 million contract, published last week, will allow the department to shift its remaining unclassified and protected-level data from the Chinese-owned facility by July 2022. Home Affairs is one of several federal government agencies continuing to use Global Switch, which is no longer...

By Justin Hendry on Feb 17, 2021 12:35PM 'Most sensitive data already out'. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the Department of Defence’s decision to delay its exit from Global Switch’s Sydney-based data centre after plans to leave fell short last year. The decision – which  It signed a new $53.5 million property lease with Global Switch in October 2020, while at the same time extending a separate property lease under an existing deal at a cost of $8 million.  The move is at odds with other agencies like the Australian Taxation Offi...

  Exclusive: Millions of Australia's tax and company files are being held by a Chinese-owned centre, with the Government agencies struggling to find a new home for its servers. As detailed yesterday, the Defence Department was told in 2016 by then treasurer Scott Morrison it had to look for alternatives after Global Switch (GSU) data centre was sold off to a Chinese data firm. There were fears Australia's sovereignty and secrets were at risk by the sell off, from a United Kingdom consortium to one in China, whose State hackers had already been targeting Australia's servers. But Defence o...

‘Quite shocked’: Defence give secrets to China Department of Defence secrets have now been signed over to a China-owned data storage centre despite security fears. Politics by Charles Miranda Premium Content Subscriber only Defence has signed over the storage of its secrets to a Chinese-owned company in defiance of apparent orders from the federal government that the millions of sensitive real-time files be urgently moved out. For years, data storage firm Global Switch has been tasked with storing the nation's military secrets at facilities...

A Chinese-owned data storage company will house files for the Australian Defence Force, sparking fears the global superpower could easily access Australia's military secrets.   The parent company of data firm Global Switch, Aldersgate Investments, sold 49 per cent of its stake to Chinese consortium Elegant Jubilee in 2016. At the time then-treasurer Scott Morrison said all military documents would be phased out of the storage facility in Ultimo, Sydney, by 2020. Instead the contract, which was due to expire in October last year, was quietly renewed until September 2025 in a $53.5million dea...