ASIO

The fire-bombing of a Melbourne synagogue has prompted a terrorism designation from the Australian Government.

ASIO highlighted increase in uncivil discourse and violent protests, spurred initially by COVID-19 restrictions and then by the Israel-Hamas conflict.

‘If you break the law or you’re a threat to security, you lose your right to privacy,’ ASIO’s Mike Burgess said.

Authorities have raised Australia’s terror threat level for the first time since 2014, citing a number of factors in the lead-up to the decision.

The system will be ‘air gapped’ but how secure is it?

‘We target radicalisation, not religion,’ said Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Krissy Barrett.

Some spies pretend to be journalists themselves, while others cultivate legitimate journalists in the hope they will gain access to classified information.

What is the point of a National Security Committee that doesn’t regularly listen to the heads of its principal security agencies?

Why the move now to remove Australia’s spy chiefs from the peak intelligence body?

‘There is an active spy or has been within our government, and what we do know is that China is behind it,’ said former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce.

The ASIO boss last week unveiled a former politician had helped a foreign spy ring and sold out Australia.

Senior opposition MPs believe the foreign power behind the ‘A Team’ spy ring is Beijing.

Mr. Dutton believed ASIO’s decision not to reveal the person’s identity was unfair to 99.9 percent of patriotic politicians.

ASIO would not name the country, but revealed an ‘A-team’ of spies actively recruited locals to spy for a foreign regime.

Other countries are trying to discover everything from Australia’s defence capabilities to medical advances, and more needs to be done to stop them, ASIO says.

AFP officers were accused of ‘enticing’ the boy and encouraging his fixation with Islamic State, but the minister says radicalisation is happening earlier.

An investigation has found Australia’s Home Affairs Department used contractors suspected of evading US sanctions against Iran.

CSIS director says Beijing has tried to purchase locations near sensitive, strategic assets in Canada for the purpose of intelligence gathering.

Beijing has been accused of intellectual property theft—on a sophisticated scale—“well beyond traditional espionage.”

Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil concerned about the rise of neo-Nazi groups and their visibility around the Voice referendum.