Chinese in running for Optus 4G deal

Source and full story ---> www.smh.com.au: "The federal government is on a collision course with Chinese telecommunications company Huawei amid expectations it will emerge with all or part of a $2 billion contract to build an ultra-fast mobile network for Optus."

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Liberal MP says ASIO security assessment should be replaced

Video:media.smh.com.au: "Liberal MP Joshua Frydenberg says asylum seeker screening process by ASIO should be reviewed by federal court judge. Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon strongly disagrees."

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ASIO reported on ABC current affairs shows during Cold War

The Australian: "AUSTRALIA'S domestic spy agency, ASIO, kept a close watch on programs produced by the ABC -- and those producing them -- during the 1960s battle for the national broadcaster's soul."

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Australian PM dismisses refugee hunger strike over ASIO bans

Source and full story ---> World Socialist Web Site: "Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday vehemently backed bans imposed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the domestic spy agency, on 55 refugees held in indefinite detention."

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Gillard backs ASIO bans on refugees

Source and full story ---> Knox Weekly: "Prime Minister Julia Gillard has strongly backed security black-bans on 55 refugees held in detention, despite legal and activist concerns ASIO will retain its final veto over a new independent review."

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ASIO letter reveals why refugees deemed threat

Source and full story ---> The West Australian: "ASIO has told a group of Sri Lankan detainees that it regards them as a threat to national security because some of them have a history of violence in their homeland."

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Free childcare scam aimed at intelligence staff

Source and full story ---> www.canberratimes.com.au/: "Intelligence agency employees have been the target of an unsophisticated online phishing scam, which used a website purporting to offer free childcare to government employees to extract sensitive personal data."

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Concern as Aussies join Syrian uprising

Source and full story ---> The Australian: "A RAPID increase in the number of Australians travelling to Syria to fight with al-Qa'ida is a serious concern to security agencies that have been forced to invest significant time and resources monitoring the emerging threat."

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PM John Howard misled Australia, says former parliamentary inquiry secretary | Big News Network

Source and full story ---> Big News Network: "Former prime minister John Howard's justification this week on why Australia went to war against Iraq in 2003 obfuscates some issues."

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Wikileaks: At what point does a person become a spy?

Source and full story ---> adelaidenow: "THE latest release of WikiLeaks cables raise a question: at what point does a person become a spy? Bob Hawke was by far the US Embassy in Canberra's most highly placed and reliable informant, over the years 1973 to 1976, the most riotous period in Australian political history."

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Spy agency had man under surveillance

Source and full story ---> The West Australian: "A Perth Muslim jailed for nine years in December for attempting to murder his brother was the target of a counterterrorism operation by Australia's spy agency ASIO at the time of his arrest."

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Australia's Guantanamo isn't offshore: it's in Melbourne

Source and full story ---> The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "While America's indefinite detention policy is kept at arm's reach from its citizens, the men, women and children that Australia keeps in legal limbo can be found in the perfectly ordinary suburb of Broadmeadows in Melbourne, writes Jeff Sparrow."

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Howard ignored advice and went to war in Iraq

Source and full story ---> www.smh.com.au: "Former prime minister John Howard's justification this week on why we went to war against Iraq in 2003 obfuscates some issues."

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Court lifts suppression of ASIO case details

Source and full story ---> ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Australia's spy agency ASIO has lost a bid to keep details of a case against a senior public servant secret"

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WikiLeaks cables reveal Bob Hawke thought Gough Whitlam was stupid

Source and full story ---> adelaidenow: "Declassified US cables, released by WikiLeaks, reveal that Mr Hawke told an embassy source named Labatt that Mr Whitlam could not be trusted to run the economy "any place but down"."

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MELBOURNE ASIO NEGATIVE REFUGEES BEGIN MASS HUNGER STRIKE

Refugee Advocacy Network: "At 2.00am, Monday morning (8 April), 28 ASIO negative refugees (24 Sri
Lankan, 2 Iranian 2 Rohingyans) began a hunger strike at the Melbourne
Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre. They have
gathered on the playground inside the detention facility."

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GovernmentCareer - Executive Branch EL1 - Various in ACT

Source and full AD ---> federal.governmentcareer.com.au: "As a member of the Branch, you will be part of a small and dynamic team with exposure to senior officers both within ASIS and across the broader National Security Community."

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Is Australian Foreign Minister A "Spy?"

Source and full story ---> OpEd Eurasia Review: "Is Australian Foreign Minister A “Spy?” Australian Newspaper Exposes Bob Carr As An “agent” Under US Influence – OpEd"

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Intense pressure on security agencies

Source and full story ---> The Australian: "TWO asylum-seekers released into community detention and a third issued a bridging visa had to be hauled back into detention after ASIO found they were threats to national security."

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For spies in disguise it's all about being boring

Source and full story ---> canberratimes.com.au: "IF CANBERRA has a reputation for being a poorly dressed drab city, it could be because the style mandate for ASIO's intelligence officers is ''boring''."

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ASIO reasons for rejection 'seven lines long'

Source and full story ---> abc.net.au: "A refugee advocate says the reasons provided by ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) for adverse security assessments of some refugees are too brief and impossible to contest."

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ASIO office behind schedule

Source and full story ---> canberratimes: "THE MASSIVE ASIO building will not open for at least another several months, behind schedule and well over budget."

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Giving teeth to racist dogma

Source and full story ---> theage.com.au: "Thus Morrison has explained that the context for the comments is that the asylum seekers ''would otherwise be in detention'', and that they have not been fully ASIO-cleared before release."

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Rights groups alarmed by spy agency 'power grab'

Source and full story ---> ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Civil liberties groups have expressed alarm at moves by Australia's Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) to expand its range of intelligence-gathering powers."

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