Thursday 9 October 2014

Assange accuses Australian govt of ‘misrepresenting nature of interception’ — RT News

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has challenged assurances by the Australian government that communications interception in the country was a matter of “strict oversight.”"



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Limits on media are a blow to the people’s right to know | The Australian

"It would be difficult for a commentator to be more pro-national security than I am. My admiration for the work of ASIO, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, the federal police and our other national security agencies is sincere and great. And the need for governments to keep some secrets is evident to everyone but a fool."



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Letters tell of Sir Robert Menzies' Cadillac, friendship with driver Alf Stafford

"Menzies is newsworthy because John Howard's riveting book The Menzies Era is just published and because David Horner's just-published history of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) discusses Menzies' relationship with that shadowy organisation."



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