The Australian government's first tranche of national security legislation reforms has passed the House of Representatives, increasing the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's (ASIO) powers ...
The name, allowed under Part 1AC Crimes Act 1914 and granted by the director general, is a person who has been employed by ASIO since the late 1970s and rose through the ranks to become first ...
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has used a speech to warn foreign espionage is costing the nation at least $12.5 billion a year, while revealing the agency disrupted 24 significant espionage and ...
In 2024, for example, a hostile foreign intelligence service wanted to harm or kill one or more people on our soil. ASIO disrupted the Australian part of what was an international operation to ...
It emerged in a single line in a US magazine almost six decades ago, a tantalising Australian link to the plot to assassinate president John F Kennedy. In a list of top-secret CIA memos unearthed by ...
Security consultant Neil Fergus, who had phones and laptops seized in the February raids, has lodged a complaint with the nat­ion’s intelligence watchdog. “I have not been charged with anything so ...
Dozens of Territory citizens including current federal MP Warren Snowdon, former NT News editor Jim Bowditch, pearling magnate Nick Paspaley Sr and activist Rob Wesley-Smith were the subjects of ASIO ...
The nation’s intelligence agency has come under scrutiny after admissions that foreign interference replaced terror as ASIO’s top focus in the 2020s, despite the ...
ASIO boss Mike Burgess has openly admitted foreign interference, from countries like China and Iran, replaced terror as their top focus during the 2020s, although the ...