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Alt=”Reps header image.” width=”800″ height=”130″> The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has recommended the

The ACT Court of Appeal has handed down its judgement on the secrecy provisions that has followed the prosecution of Bernard Collaery on conspiracy charges. Bernard Collaery has won his appeal to over

Australia has introduced unprecedented spying powers since 2001. An expert says they need more oversight.

Senator Katy Gallagher said the party would conduct an inquiry into the ASIS operation to bug East Timor’s cabinet rooms during sensitive oil and gas treaty negotiations.

Misuse of Pegasus Was Enabled by Governments Ignoring Calls to Reform Intelligence Agencies Since Independence, every Union government brushed aside opportunities to create oversight mechanisms which are common in other parts of the world. Illustration: The Wire Rights28/Jul/2021 When India won Independence, it had the choice of two models for its intelligence agencies. One was the United States’s version, which gave intelligence work a legal basis, insisting on accountability and transparenc...

“Witness K” convicted for exposing Australia’s illegal bugging in East Timor A former senior Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) officer, known publicly only as “Witness K,” was sentenced to a suspended jail term last Friday. His “crime” was to blow the whistle on the Howard Liberal-National government’s use of ASIS to plant a listening device in East Timor’s cabinet room in 2004 during crucial oil and gas negotiations. While “Witness K,” now 70, was spared immed...

Balloons                   Many of us have heard about the prosecution of Bernard Collaery on the say-so of Christian Porter. But very few know much more than that it is an almost secret trial against the former ACT Attorney-General.

 May 10, 2021: Britain is expanding the tasks its special operations forces carry out. For example, more will be assigned to work more closely and frequently with MI6 (foreign intelligence, like the CIA). The expansion will also include creating a Special Operations Brigade containing four battalions of Rangers, similar in training and function to the American Ranger Regiment. The original rangers, after which the American rangers are named, were actually ...

National security vs the publics right to know. "I feel were living in very dangerous times here in Australia...one day well wake up and wonder how on earth we got here." MP In a Canberra court room one of the most controversial trials ever to be held in Australia will soon get under way. The case is highly sensitive, with key evidence central to the allegations unlikely to ever be heard by the public. "This could be...one of the most secretive trials in Australian history." Former judge A fo...

It seems Dintwe’s focus on actually doing his job put a target on his back.  He said “concerted efforts” to remove him from office came within weeks of Bongo being appointed Minister of State Security. Evidence he presented suggests Bongo – who was arrested on charges of corruption in 2019 and later acquitted by controversial Cape Judge President John Hlophe – and his then director-general, Arthur Fraser, launched a twin-pronged attack. Bongo, according to Dintwe, tried a legislative...