Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

Some of this is hardly new. The 1950s communist witch hunts in the US involved detailed data collection and surveillance. The formation of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was about spying on the political left and monitoring dissent: if you went to an anti-Vietnam War protest, then you likely ...

The Home Affairs Portfolio will provide strategic planning coordination and other support to the independent security and law enforcement agencies including the Australian Border Force, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Criminal Commission.

... educational institutions, media, and Chinese community networks, many of which are echoed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. “There is a critical need to clearly distinguish between Chinese people and the CCP and avoid conflating the two in public discussions,” the submission read.

Peter Dutton has responsibility for Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australian Federal Police, Criminal Intelligence Commission and Border Force in the new Home Affairs ministry. Under the change, the department is no longer held accountable externally but will be responsible for ...

Under s32(2), the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) can provide advice to the minister in the form of a security assessment, with the minister then able to "direct critical infrastructure owners or operators to do or not do a certain thing to mitigate a risk that has been identified as prejudicial to ...

More than 30 China scholars in Australia, including world-renowned sinologist Geremie Barme, have urged the Turnbull government to delay its foreign influence legislation amid warnings that Chinese Australians are being stigmatised. The Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme is a threat to intellectual ...

Once he graduates this year, Mr Matchett plans to join the WA Police Force to work his “way up the ranks” and become a member of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service or Australian Security Intelligence Organisation. The 21-year-old, who was born in Geraldton and of the Yamatji People, said the ...

The Australian story has included startling media revelations about political donations and more, extraordinary warnings from the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, political controversies, and tough (and contentious) proposed legislation. And now scrutiny is turning to Hamilton's book.

He cited repeated recent warnings issued by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) against what he termed China's “'sharp power' intrusive influence” in Australia. Medcalf praised as “excellent” Clive Hamilton's new book, Silent Invasion, China's Influence in Australia, which insists that a ...