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)
October 2024
Australia’s spy chief warns AI will accelerate online radicalisation
Asio boss Mike Burgess says social media impact is a ‘step-change’ in the threat posed by extremism
August 2024
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Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton clash on Palestinian visas in question time – video
‘Three or four’ countries involved in foreign interference in Australia including ‘friends’, Mike Burgess says
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Albanese praises breaker Raygun for having ‘a crack’ – as it happened
Albanese’s move to split Asio across two portfolios has laid security and political tensions bare
Karen Middleton
July 2024
Domestic violence perpetrators could be tracked by specialised agency, Australian crime institute says
Exclusive: Report into intimate partner homicide says such individuals share similar behaviour to violent extremists and should be treated the same way
Australia to build ‘top-secret’ cloud for intelligence agencies in $2bn deal with Amazon
Richard Marles unveils cloud plan including three new datacentres to house the most secretive and valuable information
Australian defence minister announces $2bn 'top-secret cloud' with Amazon – video
Richard Marles says the cloud computing capability will house top-secret information across the commonwealth
June 2024
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
May 2024
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
April 2024
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
March 2024
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
February 2024
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
January 2024
Australian arts in focus
Displaced comrades: cold war rivalries, lies and spies among Sydney’s Russian émigrés
A 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
October 2023
‘Not proportionate’: Australian government urged to axe extraordinary terror powers amid low threat level
Peter Dutton doubles down on call to cancel visas of antisemitic protesters
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