Defence spending is set to soar but there’s huge waste to be slashed | The Australian

"The few hundred million dollars budgeted to pay for our six fighter jets and associated personnel to contribute to a global coalition for six months is trifling compared to the wave of defence spending on the horizon. "



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The Australian internet is now under surveillance » Techly

"Welcome, reader, and welcome, anonymous Australian Security Intelligence Organisation oversight employee whose name and position we will never know, and could face criminal prosecution for mentioning even if we did. "



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Terror Hysteria - Draconian New Australian Anti-Terrorism Laws Target Journalists, Muslims And Human Rights By Dr Gideon Polya

"Supported by US-inspired “terror hysteria” the extreme right wing Australian Coalition Government with the support of the right wing Labor Opposition has war criminally re-invaded Iraq and passed draconian anti-terrorism legislation that makes Australia a secret police state  with  detention without charge or trial and Australian Intelligence  officers (e.g. of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization, ASIO) having criminal and civil immunity from prosecution, and reportage on any special intelligence operations criminalized with maximum punishments ranging from 5 years' to 10 years' imprisonment.  "



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Australia's new secret police - Eureka Street

"When Greg James QC recently launched Frank Walker’s book Maralinga on British nuclear tests in Australia, the former NSW Supreme Court judge said the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was involved in an associated program to collect the bones of dead children without the parents’ permission."



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Dita de Boni: Tackling terror no excuse for police state - Politics - NZ Herald News

"It's already well advanced across the ditch. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has just been granted new powers to detain people without charge for up to seven days during which they are to have no contact with the outside world, and during which, if they refuse to answer questions, they will be imprisoned indefinitely."



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Pen-testers outline golden rules to make hacks more €xpen$ive • The Register

 "A passing glance at the Australian Signals Directorate's lauded top four defence strategies, for example, reveals whitelisting as the first priority of security teams."



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Assange makes surveillance inquiry submission

"Julian Assange has entered Australia's surveillance debate dismissing as "absurd" and "meaningless" government assurances that telecommunications interception is limited and subject to strict oversight.  "



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SmartCompany - Federal government releases “cloud-first” policy in a bid to cut ICT costs in a move welcomed by Microsoft

"Microsoft is set to be major beneficiary of the policy, announced just days after Azure became the first public cloud service in Australia to pass an Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) Industry Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment."



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