New Australian Federal Police units to enforce “social cohesion”

National Security Investigations (NSI) teams are targeting groups allegedly harming Australia’s “social fabric.” ...
ZDNet

Mike Burgess named as new ASIO Director-General of Security

Mike Burgess has been named as the new Director-General of Security for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Burgess leaves his post as Director-General of the Australian Signals ...
ZDNet

International Production Orders Bill will give ASIO access to encrypted communications

Australia now has world-first encryption laws. This guide explains what the laws can do, what they cannot do, and how Australia ended up here. In a submission [PDF] to the Parliamentary Joint ...
Lowy Institute

ASIO versus the A-team

ASIO Director General Mike Burgess began his 2024 Annual Threat Assessment by heralding the end of business as usual – or “BAU” as he put it. “If terrorists and spies don’t do BAU, a security service ...
The Australian

ASIO expands graduate program in a bid for tech grads to go after foreign agents

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is on the hunt for junior spies who can “out-think”, “out-imagine” and use technology to get rival spies’ “computers to spill their secrets”. ASIO is ...
Sydney Morning Herald

New powers for ASIO to question 14-year-olds and go after foreign spies

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia's domestic intelligence agency will have the power to forcibly question foreign spies and 14-year-olds under new laws ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ASIO Sparrow Anne Neill was a 'secret service housewife' who lived an incredible double life

In the 1950s, Anne Neill cut an unimposing figure. She was neatly dressed, white-haired, softly spoken. Some regarded her as "a fluttery old lady", historian Phillip Deery tells ABC RN's The History ...

REFILE-UPDATE 1-Australian government lawyer names China in interference investigation

Australia has named China in a court document as the foreign state under investigation by police in its first foreign interference investigation, though Beijing dismissed the allegation as an ...
Lowy Institute

New book looks at the dobbers who did their work for ASIO

Tony Abbott complained “I never thought dobbing and snitching was part of the Australian character”. The former PM had copped a $500 fine last year after a member of the public photographed him on a ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

ASIO warns foreign spies are secretly 'cultivating politicians' across Australia

Attempts by foreign spies to secretly cultivate Australian politicians across all levels of government are coming under increasing attention from the country's domestic intelligence agency. ASIO fears ...
The Conversation

ASIO to avoid ‘left’, ‘right’ and ‘Islamic’ in an overhaul of its descriptions of extremism

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