Tuesday, January 14

"First screened at last year's Melbourne International Film Festival, this four-part documentary examines the ASIO files kept on four men - Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, author-journalist Roger Milliss, student activist Michael Hyde and novelist Frank Hardy"

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ASIO's secret eye on communists opened | The Australian

 "DOCO-MAKER Haydn Keenan presents a four-part "secret history" of Australia, ripped from the pages of ASIO's files, starting tonight on SBS."

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Australia’s integration into US war plans against China - World Socialist Web Site

"As well as intelligence gathered by key surveillance bases such as Pine Gap, Australian agencies feed the NSA with vast amounts of data by tapping into undersea cables and operating listening posts in Australian diplomatic missions across the region."

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US/NATO missile defense key to first strike – Bruce Gagnon - News - World - The Voice of Russia: News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video

"Two of the bigger NSA listening stations are Menwith Hill up in Yorkshire, England and Pine Gap in the outback in Australia. Those are two of the biggest US NSA spy bases and the very same bases are involved in flying drones, they are involved in espionage, both against the people of Asia or Europe and against companies, corporations in Europe for example, that are bidding against American corporations.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_12_27/US-NATO-missile-defense-key-to-first-strike-Bruce-Gagnon-3713/"

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Fallout: Documentary about On the Beach - World Socialist Web Site

"Canberra’s active involvement in the “pivot”—coordinated US-Australia military operations, high-level electronic spying and military targeting through the joint Pine Gap base in central Australia and other facilities, the basing of thousands of US marines in Darwin and advanced plans for joint naval blockades against China—make Australia an immediate military target in any future conflict."

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No plans for specific ASD intelligence inquiry, says Inspector-General - Delimiter

"Australia’s Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has stated they have no plans to initiate a specific inquiry to examine allegations the Australian Signals Directorate had offered to share data about Australian citizens with foreign intelligence agencies, stating they believe current oversight of the ASD to be “sufficient”."

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Taman Shud Case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The fact that the man died in Adelaide, the nearest capital city to Woomera, a top-secret missile launching and intelligence gathering site,[61] heightened this speculation. It was also recalled that one possible location from which the man might have travelled to Adelaide was Port Augusta,[10] a town relatively close to Woomera.
Additionally, in April 1947 the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service, as part of Operation Venona, discovered that there had been top secret material leaked from Australia's Department of External Affairs to the Soviet embassy in Canberra.[62] This led to a 1948 U.S. ban on the transfer of all classified information to Australia.[62]
As a response, the Australian government announced that it would establish a national secret security service (which became the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)).[63]"

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Global Positioning Systems Asia-Pacific region and geographic information system technology - industry - 3sNews_ China's geographic information industry _ the world's largest network of geographic information industry portal

"The Australian Government also adopted "Joint Project 5408" (Joint Project 5408) for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Australian Defence Force navigation warfare (NAVWAR) the ability to provide a global positioning system navigation warfare defense capabilities. The first phase of the project is to define the research delivered in 2002, the purpose is to determine the current needed to enhance the global positioning system and replacement range."

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Armed man caught at Australian embassy in Indonesia | thetelegraph.com.au

"A MAN armed with two knives and a rope who scaled the Australian embassy wall in Jakarta is being questioned by Indonesian police."

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Terror threat high in Indonesia | The Australian

"DESPITE tensions between Jakarta and Canberra, Australia will inform Indonesia immediately if its intelligence agencies uncover evidence of terrorist threats in that country."

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Academics petition for surveillance end | The Australian

"MORE than 250 academics from around the world have signed an online petition calling for an end to "blanket mass surveillance" by intelligence agencies."

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Film buff David Stratton's starring role on ASIO spy cam

"A young David Stratton visits the Soviet embassy in Canberra, blissfully unaware that Australia's spy service is watching and snapping a photo."

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New ASIO headquarters remain empty

"Six months after former prime minister Kevin Rudd opened ASIO's new headquarters, the intelligence agency is yet to occupy the $700 million Parkes building."

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Fed police trial new net spying technology | News.com.au

"CONTROVERSIAL new technology capable of collecting and storing emails and other information sent via computer in real time will be rolled out by the Australian Federal Police next year."

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Libya advances to Pacific region | The Australian

"TWO years before the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 by Libyan terrorists over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, ASIO warned the Hawke government that Muammar Gaddafi's regime might order attacks on Qantas flights in the Middle East or Europe."

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Xenophon wants new data-interception laws | The Australian

 "FEDERAL independent Nick Xenophon wants changes to Australian telecommunications interception laws following calls for a narrowing of National Security Agency (NSA) powers."

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2014, the year that infosec gets political - governance and risk, ISPs, Foreign policy, Australian Signals Directorate, security, social, nsa, surveillance state, Bruce Schneir, MI5 - CSO | The Resource for Data Security Executives

"2013 has certainly been a watershed year for information security. But to understand how things might subsequently unfold in 2014, it's worth remembering that each and every revelation of 2013 will be processed and acted upon by humans. Humans with their unchanging human nature, and organisations created by us humans, with their similarly unchanging nature."

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Australian Intelligence Agencies

 "As with most nations, internal surveillance in Australia and external espionage involves a range of agencies - clandestine and otherwise. This page highlights some of the federal government agencies."

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DFAT's consular bill: charge Colin Russell, charge Schapelle | Crikey

"Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has threatened to charge environmental rat bag Colin Russell for the $35,000 in consular help that got him out of a Russian prison. But if she wants Russell to pay, why isn’t she sending a bill to Schapelle Corby?"

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ASIO 'spied on Indigenous activists to crush movement' | SBS News

"Australia’s domestic security agency, ASIO, spied on Indigenous activists in an attempt to crush the movement for political change in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, a retired Aboriginal studies academic claims."

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ASIO 'unlawfully'

coerced man into interview:

"Australian spies illegally coerced a man into speaking with them and failed to inform him of his rights, a tribunal says."

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