Australia is on the verge of again rewarding failure by expanding further the powers of ASIO and the failed Home Affairs ...

Duggan’s family and spy agency both confirm one negative finding but Asio says despite this IGIS found Asio acted ‘both ethically and within the law at all times in matters regarding Daniel Duggan’ ...

The Home Affairs minister and a national security expert have scolded MPs for “reckless and dangerous” comments about ASIO ...

Fundamentalist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir has launched a public attack on Australian spy chief Mike Burgess, accusing him of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia's domestic spy agency says it is "pleased" with the passing of the Government's data retention legislation, which it has described as "critical". "Access to historical communications data is ...

Over the last eight months at least seven political activists around Australia have been approached by federal or state intelligence agents for information about other activists. Green Left Weekly ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia’s domestic spy agency should not be able to use information procured by torture to assess the security risk posed by an ...

In 1950, a year after ASIO’s formation, its head, one Brigadier Sir Charles Spry, began compiling lists of individuals to be detained in army camps should war break out. Spry’s sinister document ...