Big brother: size of ASIO HQ questioned - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

"Early heritage assessments of ASIO's huge new headquarters in Canberra said the five-storey building would barely be seen above the tree tops."

Calls for answers on Habib's torture

"A FORMER judge, lawyers, academics, politicians and intelligence officers have joined mounting calls for a public inquiry into charges that the Australian government and its agencies were complicit in the seizure of Mamdouh Habib and his torture in Egypt."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange denounces Australian Labor government

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accused the Australian government of conspiring against him and demanded that it reveal its operations against other Australians involved in the whistle-blowing web site. He made the allegations on SBS television’s “Dateline” program on Sunday."

Crying out for change

"The pressure-cooker conditions created in detention facilities by the Rudd government's moratorium on processing, and what appears to be a major systemic blockage caused by the spy agency ASIO failing to provide speedy security clearances, are certain to erupt again."

Growing proof of terrorist, organised crime links - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"The Australian Crime Commission has told a parliamentary inquiry that terrorism and organised crime should not be treated separately, saying there is growing evidence they are linked."

A message to Tony Abbott - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"There is a minority of Muslims in Australia – a telephone box minority – who say and do wild things."

EXCLUSIVE: An Interview With Former Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks

"David Hicks was one of the first 'war on terror' detainees to be sent to Guantanamo the day the prison facility opened on January 11, 2002. He is one of the small group of detainees who challenged the President George W. Bush's November 13, 2001 executive order authorizing indefinite detention, which led to a landmark 2004 Supreme Court case, Rasul v. Bush, in which the High-Court said detainees have the right to habeas corpus. Hicks spent five-and-a-half years at Guantanamo and was tortured. Last October, he published a memoir, 'Guantanamo: My Journey.' This is his first interview since his release from Guantanamo in 2007."

Almost all Afghans allowed to stay | Perth Now

"NINETY-SIX per cent of Afghan asylum claims finalised last year were successful, challenging the Gillard government's assurances that people-smuggling rackets can be smashed by sending bogus refugees home in droves."

Australian official saw Egyptians torture Habib

"EVIDENCE from an Egyptian intelligence officer that names an Australian official who witnessed the torture of Mamdouh Habib in Guantanamo Bay has been revealed as the trigger for a massive government payout to the Sydney man, and a high-level investigation."

What happened to the terror monitor?

"A key national security job remains unfilled 277 days after it was created with bipartisan political support."

'No evidence' behind Solomons conspiracy report - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"The Solomon Islands Government has admitted an 'intelligence report' accusing Australia of trying to bribe MPs to cross the floor is unsubstantiated."

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"The trail of the Australian jihadis" ...

Radio Australia:Connect Asia:Story:Burmese asylum seekers challenge 'chaotic' security checks

"Burmese asylum seekers held in Darwin's Northern Immigration Detention Centre say the Australian intelligence agency ASIO's system for checking their security status appears chaotic and unfair."

ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:Australia helping US investigated Wikileaks: founder

"The founder of whistleblowing-website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has accused the Australian Government of helping the United States to investigate Australians involved in the website."

Story of injustice set for the big screen - Local News - News - Maroochy Journal

"THIRTY-THREE years ago Paul Alister was irrevocably linked to what is considered to be the nation’s first act of terrorism."

Assange hits out at Australia | The Australian

"JULIAN Assange has accused the Gillard government of being 'co-opted' by the US, saying it is continuing to provide the US with information behind the scenes while publicly claiming to have dropped all investigations against him."

Nation turned its back on rights abuses

"Mamdouh Habib went from being a Lakemba coffee-shop owner looking for a new life to a terrorism suspect, tortured, jailed without charge, vilified and finally paid hush money by the federal government. The Sun-Herald traces his journey."

Australians saw Habib tortured, says officer

"Then foreign minister Alexander Downer attorney-general Philip Ruddock repeatedly denied knowledge of the transfer. So did then ASIO boss Dennis Richardson and federal police chief Mick Keelty."

Ex-ASIO man's housemate exonerated - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

"The housemate of a former ASIO employee accused of leaking secrets to the media has been exonerated, ending a legal battle spanning more than six years."

No vacancy

"The Commonwealth Ombudsman's report into conditions at Christmas Island last week slammed chronic overcrowding, a lack of support services - including accredited interpreters - and inordinate delays with ASIO security checks."

Men acquitted over ASIO documents leak - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"The case of two Canberra men found guilty of leaking confidential ASIO documents has ended with both men being acquitted."

UNPO: Burma: Asylum Seekers Still Detained

"Sixteen Burmese asylum seekers have been detained in an Australian Immigration Centre for months while security clearance is being checked, in a situation creating extreme stress for people who are simply demanding humanitarian protection."

Australia Network News:Stories:Burmese call to ease international sanctions

"ASIO says its individual security assessments are conducted on a case by case basis."

CPA - The Guardian - #1488

"“… the stage has been reached where the current scale of operations on Christmas Island is not sustainable,”"

Difference Between ASIS and ASIO | Difference Between | ASIS vs ASIO

"ASIS and ASIO are part of Australian Intelligence Community. Australia has a well developed structure of intelligence collection and analysis."

Judicial review of ASIO underway - Top Stories - Lawyers Weekly - Breaking legal news, views, analysis and legal jobs online

"Two Iraqi refugees who spent years in a Nauru detention centre after being deemed a security risk, only to be later granted refugee status, are seeking judicial review of ASIO's decision making processes."

Australians training in Yemen terrorist camps - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"An Arab intelligence agent has told the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program that Australian citizens have been seen in Al Qaeda terrorist training camps in Yemen."

Just as Tuckey predicted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

"Desperate to again distract the easily distracted media from his bungling of our border protection, Rudd last week leapt on these comments by Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey:"

Anti-terrorism laws and the implications for Australian publishing « .ReviewMania.

"The introduction of new anti-terrorism-related laws within Western democracies has created a climate within Western media, and particularly in Australia, which threatens to destabilise the media’s capacity to counter-balance the power of the government"

Australia and US sign secret satellite spy deal

"AUSTRALIA and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific."

Privacy losses in anti-terror laws-Australian Privacy Foundation to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No 2) 2005 AUSTLII | yasminbaharilegalnews

"Submission by the Australian Privacy Foundation to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Bill (No 2) 2005, December 2005."

UFOs - scientific research: ASIO and Australian UFO groups

"During the period when the Disclosure Australia Project (http://disclosureaustralia.freewebpages.org) was actively pursuing Australian Federal government UFO files, I requested files, if any, held by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) (http://www.asio.gov.au) on a number of Australian UFO groups."

Rejected asylum seekers demand answers from ASIO

"THE last asylum seeker left on Nauru as part of the Pacific solution was repeatedly questioned by ASIO about a 30-second meeting he had with militant anti-US Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the 1990s."

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"The decision-maker is the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). The applicants are Mohammed Sagar and Muhammad Faisal, both of whom fled Iraq, sought asylum in Australia in 2001 and were sent to Nauru. Both were found to be refugees in 2005."

Court reviews ASIO's security assessment - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"A federal court judge will today review the role of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in an adverse security ruling against two Iraqi refugees."

The Domino Theory - Armchair General and HistoryNet >> The Best Forums in History

"In the very early 1960’s there were some in the Australian Intelligence community who thought that the best that could be done in Vietnam was to buy time for other countries in the region."

Australia Must End Indefinite Detention of Rohingya Refugees

"Early Monday morning, a Rohingya refugee detained in Australia’s Northern Immigration Detention Center, went to visit some of his friends in a nearby cell. He asked if there was any update on their immigration case and what might happen to them. They told him that all they knew was that there was no news."