GCHQ monitored Irish

"Britain’s surveillance body, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), could be tapping underwater cables connecting Ireland to the global web, according to a new document leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and released by German media."



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Senate to debate new spying powers

"Parliament is set to consider new laws to bolster co-operation between Australia's armed forces and its spies in the fight against Islamic State fighters."



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Government puts foot down on bugs

"The Federal Government will build its own cone of silence in a bid to stop foreign powers listening in on sensitive meetings."



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ASIO and other intelligence agencies reach for the spy

"Savvy terrorists and changing security issues have forced our intelligence agencies to pump huge money into funding and recruitment."



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Indonesia Did Terrible Things in East Timor — and Australia Doesn't Want You to Know About Them | VICE News

"Australia's government is fighting to keep proof of Indonesian war crimes from public view, and the effort is apparently meant to keep Indonesia's government happy."



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Attorney-General appeals against the release of secret diplomatic information on East Timor

"The Federal Court is to hear a "top secret" appeal by the Australian government aimed at suppressing information from a diplomatic file on Indonesian military war crimes in East Timor more than 30 years ago. "



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We won't kill Aust fighters in Iraq:

"Australia's shadowy overseas spy agency has rejected claims the government's new anti-terrorism laws could give it the power to assassinate Australian Islamic State fighters."



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APS Jobs

"The role of the Assistant Director General (ADG) is to lead a branch by strategically managing capability; overseeing activities; aligning the branch activities to corporate objectives, and adhering to government and legislative requirements. "



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Terror laws open door to targeted killings, warn Muslim and civil liberty groups

"The Abbott government's latest proposed anti-terror law represents a "back door" to allow targeted killings of Australians on foreign battle fields, Muslim lawyers and civil liberties campaigners claim."



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$100 million to protect world leaders

 " In September, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) advised the government to raise the official terror threat level to high. This prompted a review of the already high level security arrangements in Brisbane for the G20."



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Senior US spy briefs Australia

"ONE of the world’s most powerful intelligence officials has held classified briefings with Australian spy chiefs amid fears a new round of damaging Snowden leaks could soon be released."



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What is Singapore really up to now?

"THE latest move by Singapore to fly a giant spy balloon high up in its sky to gaze way over its perimeter fence has inevitably left Malaysians to repeat this oft-asked question: what is the island republic up to now?"



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Australian Prime Minister proposes to toughen anti-terrorism

"Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott offered to large-scale expansion of anti-terrorism laws.

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Ataman Cossacks Australia has denied involvement in the fighting in Ukraine

"Ataman Cossacks Australian Simeon Boyko said that reports in the British media that he allegedly located in the south-east of Ukraine and helping militias untrue."



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Australia for the sake of fighting terror allowed monitoring network

"On Thursday, 25 September, the Australian Senate majority vote expanded the powers of the Australian Intelligence (ASIO) in the campaign against espionage. "



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Australia for the sake of fighting terror allowed monitoring network

"On Thursday, 25 September, the Australian Senate majority vote expanded the powers of the Australian Intelligence (ASIO) in the campaign against espionage. "



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Australia bars terror-linked travel to Iraq or Syria

"Australia has passed a law criminalising travel to terror hotspots, a tough counter-terrorism measure aimed at stopping militants from going to Iraq and Syria to fight."



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Russia is behind cyber attack on banks

"Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ­government is actively “condoning” hacks on Western retail and banking businesses, according to the founder of one of the world’s leading cyber security firms ahead of the G20 summit in Brisbane and a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Russian leader at the APEC summit in Beijing."



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All quiet on the shirt-front

" In fact, every generation of Australian leadership has a tall Russian tale to tell, whether it's Robert Menzies shoving Mrs Petrov on board a Moscow-bound plane in Sydney and then yanking her back off it in Darwin, or Bob Hawke being briefed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation in 1983 that his mate and former Labor secretary David Combe had become a bit squiffy in the company of suspected KGB agent Valery Ivanov."



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Crossing the line on hate

 "MUSA Cerantonio, the self-styled sheik who became one of Islamic State’s most influential recruiters, may have crossed a line set by Australia’s anti-terror laws."



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The KGB spy who came in from the heat

"THE hunt for a Russian mole within ASIO was “intense … a mind-fixing moment”, says Gerard Walsh, the former deputy head of the domestic spy agency."



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G20: Spy agency warns Australian businesses to brace for wave of cyber attacks around summit

 "Over recent weeks, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has given an increasing number of briefings to industry about how to avoid G20-linked hacks."



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Australian law to protect spy operations triggers media debate

 "One of the police-state measures in the Abbott government’s barrage of “terrorism” laws has generated a revealing debate within the media and political establishment about the media’s key role in managing and manipulating public opinion in the so-called “war on terror.”"



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Govt agencies struggle to keep up with patching

"Canberra's IT chiefs have been hauled before Australia's parliament to explain why so many have struggled to meet the Australian Signals Directorate’s guidelines for information security, revealing an uphill battle against ageing infrastructure and a flood of software patches."



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AFP to lead homeland security agency

 "THE Australian Federal Police will become the lead agency under a new model for a Homeland Security department being considered by the government as part of a wide-reaching shake-up of national security."



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Security officials fear as many as 250 Aussies could be fighting or supporting Islamic State

"SECURITY officials say there could be as many as 250 Australians fighting with or supporting Islamic State."



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G-G Cosgrove sets up cyber fortress

"Former defence force chief and now Governor-General Peter Cosgrove has spent over $100,000 on a cyber-fortress at his official residences in Canberra and Sydney."



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Former diplomat Michael Thawley appointed head of PM’s department

"FORMER diplomat Michael Thawley has become the most powerful public servant in the country as the surprise new head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet after the resignation of Ian Watt."



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Australia s most senior IS member killed

"Former Kings Cross bouncer Mohammad Ali Baryalei had been the alleged mastermind of a shocking plot to snatch a stranger off the streets of Sydney and behead them."



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