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27 September 2000

# 9. What is making Australia a global financial centre?

DID YOU KNOW

Secure e-commerce facilities

  • Australia has a leading position in the availability of secure e-commerce over the Internet, showing its ability to support businesses' e-commerce operations.
  • Australia follows only Iceland and the United States in providing a secure Internet infrastructure, with roughly 130 secure servers per million inhabitants.
Secure e-commerce facilities

Source: Axiss Australia, Executive Briefing, Information Technology and Communications Infrastructure in Australia, Prepared in Association with the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, September 2000.