Hacking Team loses open-ended export license

"The data was posted on the internet, and revealed that the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption Agency and two local police forces had either purchased or looked into buying Hacking Team software."



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'It's a travesty': family pleads with Peter Dutton

 "An Australian family has been torn apart after the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, cancelled a man’s visa on the basis of a secret security assessment and placed him in detention."



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Lindt siege inquest hears Man Monis was a mentally ill man

"The inquest into the deaths of Monis and hostages Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson has previously heard that Monis had come to be regarded as a "serial pest" to the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation after he provided numerous, useless tip-offs to the spy agency."



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Top level specialists needed for cyber war

"The tender is being handled by the Australian Signals Directorate, the long-established radio interception, computer security and monitoring agency which provides ICT service and capability for itself and its two partners in the Defence Intelligence Agencies, the Australian Geospatial Organisation and the Defence Intelligence Organisation (which does all-source intelligence analysis)."



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The secret antennas of US spy base Pine Gap

"According to a recent policy report by the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, The Antennas of Pine Gap, the Australian government is far more involved in these controversial events than our distant, sunny disposition would have us believe."



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ASIS chief Nick Warner slammed

 "The Australian Secret Intelligence Service provided the security advice that denied one of its former spies a passport to travel to a tribunal hearing at The Hague on the grounds he could be "cultivated by a foreign power". The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation usually provides such assessments."



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Senator Jacqui Lambie calls for ASIO action

 "TASMANIAN Senator Jacqui Lambie wants the 190 Australians on ASIO’s official terrorist watch list to be arrested and charged in the wake of the bombings in Brussels."



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ASIO failure to hand over intelligence

 "A dispute between ASIO and ­Victoria Police over an apparent failure to pass on critical intelligence about Numan Haider’s ­descent into extremism has interrupted a coroner’s inquest into the teenager’s fatal shooting."



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Mustapha El Ossman's family discuss Villawood detention after Asio assessment – video | Australia news | The Guardian

"Mariam Albaf, the wife of Mustapha El Ossman, speaks about the toll her husband’s detention in Villawood has taken on her family. Her husband’s visa was cancelled by the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, on the basis of an Asio security assessment. El Ossman potentially faces indefinite detention in Villawood and is unable to seek a review of the Asio decision on its merits because he is not an Australian citizen. Abdul Albaf, Mariam’s brother, also speaks about the impact El Ossman’s detention has had on his relationship with his daughter, Haffa Arwa Albaf"



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