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Richardson made dozens of recommendations for how such a new Act should work, and 203 recommendations in total. It took an entire year for the government to respond, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemics impact on business, but eventually, in its formal response of December 2020, it agreed that such a reform was needed. Indeed, the government agreed, or agreed in principle, to the vast majority of Richardsons unclassified recommendations. "The central area for reform is a new electronic surv...

The Australian coat of arms over parliament house, Canberra (John/Flickr) Published 11 Jan 2021 06:00   0 Comments   The Richardson review, released last month, amounts to the most significant review of Australia’s intelligence legislative framework since the Hope Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security in the 1970s. Back then, as David Irvine has noted, former judge Robert Hope laid out operating princi...