Australian intelligence agencies
News, comment and analysis on Australia's intelligence agencies, including the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (Asio), Australian Secret Intelligence Service (Asis), Office of National Assessments (ONA), Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) and Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO)
Australia to build ‘top-secret’ cloud for intelligence agencies in $2bn deal with Amazon
Australian defence minister announces $2bn 'top-secret cloud' with Amazon – video
King’s birthday honours list 2024: from a nun who spent 26 days outside parliament to ‘Australia’s job queen’
Refugee advocate Sister Jane Keogh, rich lister Sarina Russo, Asio chief Mike Burgess and ex-premiers Dan Andrews and Mark McGowan among award recipients
Asio fights to expand ‘extraordinary’ questioning warrants to more offences despite barely using existing powers
Australia expelled two Indian intelligence operatives in 2020 as part of ‘nest of spies’, reports claim
Rise in activity from rightwing extremists who want to trigger ‘race war’ in Australia, Asio warns
Security agency tells Senate inquiry that violent hate groups are still inspired by Christchurch shooting
Prosecutors weigh up Australia’s first case under government secrecy laws
Revelation comes as the new independent monitor raises concerns about the laws which can send someone to jail for up to 10 years for revealing classified information
Asio boss defends undercover police operation targeting boy with autism
Mike Burgess says security agencies ‘don’t radicalise people’ and stands by actions of police in case of 13-year-old with Islamic State ‘fixation’
Australian who worked for foreign spies was in parliament at the time, Asio boss says
Burgess says actions of person who ‘sold out their country, party and former colleagues’ were legal because they predated 2018 espionage laws
Alex Turnbull says he may have been targeted in espionage attempt revealed by Asio
Australian politician ‘sold out’ to foreign regime after being recruited by spies, Asio boss says
Australian arts in focus
Displaced comrades: cold war rivalries, lies and spies among Sydney’s Russian émigrésA new book reveals how two clubs on opposite sides of George Street – and the cold war – played a key role in Australia’s era of espionage
‘Not proportionate’: Australian government urged to axe extraordinary terror powers amid low threat level
Australian Human Rights Commission says preventive detention regime is now harder to justify
Peter Dutton doubles down on call to cancel visas of antisemitic protesters
‘Nothing controversial’ in stance, opposition leader declares after Asio boss warns that ‘words matter’
Bondi businessman accused of selling secrets to China can only be accused of plagiarism, lawyers argue
Lawyers for Alexander Csergo say a search using AI tools used to check plagiarism at universities verified his claim he provided open source material
Too hot to handle: climate crisis report so secret Albanese government won’t even reveal date it was completed
Anthony Albanese continues to reject calls to make even a sanitised version of the assessment public
Imprisoned Sydney businessman accused of selling information to Chinese spies condemns ‘ridiculous’ police delay
Alexander Csergo has been in prison on remand since April as court told police ‘don’t have a timeframe’ for obtaining further evidence
Greens push Labor to release declassified climate crisis report ‘full of explosive truths’
Transparency would help MPs ‘weigh up predicted wars, water shortages and supply chain collapses against every new coal and gas approval’
Bernard Collaery’s lawyers argue secret ‘court-only’ evidence should be banned in national security cases
‘My son is innocent’: mother of imprisoned Australian businessman denies he’s a Chinese spy
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