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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the twitter conversation during the airing of Persons of Interest (my best of selection)

Geoff Derrick ‏@geoffderrick
#personsofinterest insightful doco on @SBS Disgraceful to see that ASIO spied on ordinary Aussies' most personal moments.

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz
#Personsofinterest fetish for data in distinction to intel

Ben Lever ‏@Simbera
And how you don't ever get told that they've done it. You just get fired & maybe read about it in your file decades later #PersonsOfInterest

Ben Lever ‏@Simbera Interesting to see how closely ASIO interfered with people's job prospects if they suspected them off communist leanings #PersonsOfInterest

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #Personsofinterest by the mid 1960s ASIO had lost the plot. See influence of Angleton and Golytsin

News Australia ‏@NewsAustralia .@rupertmurdoch had Marxist sympathies at Geelong Grammar and Oxford. So why did ASIO let him take over newspapers? #PersonsOfInterest

Eleri Morgan-Thomas ‏@EleriMT 19mAppalling to listen and then record such a personal conversation! There's no security implications in a pregnancy #personsofinterest

Steve Raymond ‏@ste_ray What is concerning is that even those "of no interest" are still on file #personsofinterest #sbs

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest Baby boomers enrage commos!  Yep. That's how I remember it. #RockNRoll

News Australia ‏@NewsAustralia 26mRupert Murdoch in 1950s was interested in Communism and Marxism, even hung out with a few Commies. Where's his file ASIO? #PersonsOfInterest

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest Bendigo episode straight out of Get Smart

News Australia ‏@NewsAustralia There's probably a few dozen well paid ASIO agents monitoring reaction to #PersonsOfInterest on social media right now. #SBS

Eleri Morgan-Thomas ‏@EleriMT ASIO subscribed to Tribune! And sourced their intelligence there. Hmm maybe spying is easier then I thought #personsofinterest

Anne Brophy ‏@BrophyAnne Absorbing social and political history #PersonsofInterest on @SBS reflecting on ASIO files and their effects, with hindsight

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest ASIO were effective in the Petrov case Wally Clayton (Klod) was passing on info to Soviets

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest ASIO propaganda very shrill. I remember laughing at it.

Rita El Daghl ‏@RitaElDaghl Menzies calls communism the greatest conspiracy of his time. Modern Libs  call it global warming. #PersonsOfInterest #auspol

Animadverter ‏@ozkatz #personsofinterest greatest product of intel organisations is imaginary enemies.

Rita El Daghl ‏@RitaElDaghl F*ck these active dissidents are a scary bunch. Good thing ASIO was monitoring the truly 'bad' guys. #PersonsOfInterest

Regional Reverie ‏@regionalreverie I'm left wondering what was precisely the difference between ASIO and the Stasi. #PersonsOfInterest

Steve Raymond ‏@ste_ray Wonder how many Australians currently gave an ASIO file just for belonging to a political party or attending a rally #personsofinterest #sbs

Eleri Morgan-Thomas ‏@EleriMT Imagine reading ASIO's character critique of yourself some 40 years later #personsofinterest

d.b. valentine ‏@dbvalentine "This man is of no interest" #BoringGuy #PersonsofInterest

ΒLΔΚΚЯ ‏@blakkkr #PersonsOfInterest doco on #SBSONE is making library tech organs all tingly. ..

Tommy Carron ‏@Tommycarron Interesting Australian #ASIO spy footage being shown on @SBS TV now #Personsofinterest

webyter ‏@webyter 1h#Personsofinterest facing extra 3 hour wait to watch over here in WA

ASIO surveillance film

from Facebook, Persons of Interest - the asio files




"This is one of the very few ASIO surveillance films which has sound. The narration was added after the film was shot by an officer who identified as many of the 'persons of interest' who appear as possible. The film was then projected regularly for other ASIO officers so they got to know the people well. If they happened to come across any of these people in the course of the travels they would be able to identify them even though they may not have been that officer's target. Having worked with these films for a number of years now, I feel like I know the people personally and would be able to identify them myself." - Facebook Persons of Interest - the Asio Files

ASIO - 62 years of Australia spying

on its own people - YouTube:  

"Featured on ABC's 7.30 Report on June 17, 2011, this report by Greg Miskelly tracks the history of ASIO, spying on an extraordinary number of Australians who became 'persons of interest' because of their political views or associations."

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Persons of Interest - the asio files on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/personsofinteresttheasiofiles

ASIO's all-seeing

eye:

"The plot to murder a federal minister at a Sydney television studio must be one of the nation's great untold stories. It went like this."

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ASIO files: That looks suspicious

doesn't it?:

"ASIO's secret surveillance films and photos captured many innocent Australians. Now we can see them."

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ASIS Careers

with a difference - YouTube:




"The role of an Intelligence Officer is truly unique. It offers highly-talented people the opportunity to help protect and promote Australia's national interests. "

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ASIS head

lauds 'critical' spy work - YouTube:



"The head of Australia's overseas spy agency, Nick Warner, has spoken publicly for the first time about the work of ASIS."

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David Stratton oblivious he's been cast as a spy

ASIO's vault shows its odd choice of surveillance targets:

"A young and suave David Stratton visits the Soviet embassy in Canberra. Little does he know, but the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is watching and records the occasion with this photograph."

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Persons of interest caught in

ASIO's net | The Australian:

"DOCUMENTARY-MAKER Haydn Keenan was never one to be paranoid about spies snooping on his daily life. But creating a four-part documentary series based on ASIO's files has changed his thinking.

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George Brandis' security clean-up

leaves out messy questions:

"Loose ends tend to clutter our lives and, supposedly, a new year is a good time to tidy them up or burn them to cinders."

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Pine Gap: Australia's most secretive

location | News.com.au:

"LAST week, it was revealed that the Australian research facility Pine Gap might be indirectly responsible for US drone strikes which have killed Pakistani citizens."

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Govt keeping eye on Syria

fighters: Bishop | News.com.au:

"THE federal government is closely monitoring Australians travelling to Syria, after reports of some enlisting with a terrorist organisation to fight in the civil war."

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PERSONS OF INTEREST

a 20 minute taster.:

PERSONS OF INTEREST - a 20 minute taster. from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"PERSONS OF INTEREST - a 20 minute taster"

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Persons Of Interest - outakes #3 :

The former ASIO agent and Prime Minister Harold Holt. A strange connection.:




Persons Of Interest - outakes #3 : The former ASIO agent and Prime Minister Harold Holt. A strange connection. from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"Here, from the mouth of a former agent is the strange story of ASIO's attempts to find out what happened to Prime Minister Harold Holt, throwing a disturbing light onto their skills and methods."

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ASIO Vetting - an intro by Arthur Dent

formerly known as Albert Langer and Journalist Darce Cassidy:



ASIO Vetting - an intro by Arthur Dent formerly known as Albert Langer and Journalist Darce Cassidy from Smart Street Films on Vimeo.

"What Arthur has to say may seem a little shocking but it's how things work in the third world, in a revolutionary situation and here if the circumstances called for it. Its the reason people make straight for the files of the secret police when uprisings occur."

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Aussies join

new Syrian extremists | The Australian:

"AUSTRALIANS fighting in Syria are defecting to one of the world's most deadly terrorist groups, forcing Canberra to take urgent steps to deter future recruits and to punish those Australians already fighting there. During the past two months, ASIO is understood to have received intelligence of Australian fighters in Syria joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a group responsible for summary executions and suicide bombings against civilians."

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Spies count

the cost:

"The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) may have made publicly available secret files opened on ''persons of interest'' during its Cold War on home-grown communism, but surveillance footage from that time is apparently not so easily accessed. Filmmaker Haydn Keenan, who made 1980s Australian cult movies Going Down and Pandemonium, scoured the ''darkened corners'' of the National Archives to find the astounding, disturbing and blackly amusing footage revealed in his four-part 2013 Walkley-nominated series, Persons of Interest."

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Muslim loses appeal

against ASIO ban | The Australian:

"A MAN with an "extremist interpretation of Islam" has lost his appeal against ASIO's assessment that he should be denied Australian citizenship because he was "likely to engage in activities prejudicial to security"."

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ASIO hears of terror attack on radio

news | News.com.au:

"WHEN Armenian terrorists tried to blow up the office of the Turkish consulate-general in Melbourne in 1986, the first the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) knew of it was a radio news broadcast."

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Australia accused of playing dirty

in battle with East Timor over oil and gas reserves:

 "A balmy summer morning, the leafy back streets of Narrabundah in suburban Canberra, and some 15 besuited ASIO agents are ringing the doorbell of a modest red brick home that doubles as the office of lawyer Bernard Collaery."

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Tamils speak out against ASIO security rulings

Fresh Snowden leak Australian intelligence offered to share

name change

this blog was formerly known as asioNews with the url asionews.blogspot.com.au

Australia's spying on East Timor

was hypocritical, says Kirsty Sword-Gusmao: "For Kirsty Sword-Gusmao, the news that Australia had spied on her adopted homeland under the cover of an aid program cut especially deep."

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Australia accused of playing dirty

in battle with East Timor over oil and gas reserves: "Spies undercover as aid workers …. Spies raiding spies … The Timor Sea's rich gas and oil deposits are at the heart of the latest espionage saga."

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ICJ SET COURT DATE TO RESOLVE THE CMATS DISPUTE

AND ASIO RAID ON TL LAWYER'S PROPERTY: "The Court of International Justice has set aside three days for the dispute between Timor-Leste and Australia over raids on fledgling nation’s lawyers office in Canberra in November."

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Smoke sends spies

 from ASIO headquarters | SBS News: "Smoke sparked by powerlines has forced employees inside an ASIO building in Canberra to leave."

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Court date set for ICJ

case with E Timor: "Australia will in January get the chance to defend an ASIO raid on the office of a lawyer acting for East Timor at the UN's top court in The Hague."

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George Brandis digs in

over raided East Timor documents: "Attorney-General George Brandis is refusing to return to the East Timor government ''highly sensitive'' legal advice from an eminent international law expert seized during ASIO raids this month, prompting the fledgling nation to launch action in the International Court of Justice."

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World News Update

what you need to know | The Courier-Mail: "LONDON - East Timor has instituted proceedings in the United Nation's top court in relation to ASIO raids on the office of a Canberra lawyer representing the tiny country."

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Director, Physical and Technical Security

(EL2) in ACT - Canberra - Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) - ExecutiveCareer: "Director, Physical and Technical Security (EL2)"

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Timor action unwise:

 Downer | The Australian: "FORMER foreign minister Alexander Downer has cautioned East Timor it risks damaging its international reputation as it initiates a new legal action alleging that recent seizures conducted by Australian intelligence authorities represented a violation of its sovereignty."

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Who is monitoring the covert

operations of the world's spy agencies?: "Not since the infamous Sheraton Hotel incident in Melbourne 30 years ago, when weapons-brandishing spies bungled a mock hostage rescue exercise, has the Australian Secret Intelligence Service wound up with so much egg on its face."

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More whistleblowers emerge

 in Australia’s Timor spying scandal - World Socialist Web Site: "The Australian government’s moves to suppress further exposures of its surveillance operations suffered a blow yesterday when it was revealed that three more whistleblowers have given statements to the East Timorese government about the illegal installation of bugging devices in the walls of Dili’s cabinet offices."

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Faceless hero

who united a nation: "Brian Boyd will take to the grave the secret Melbourne location where, in 1990, he met Nelson Mandela's car and a posse of undercover police"

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The spooks are watching us

Clive Palmer wants inquiry into ASIO spying on politicians | News.com.au: "CONTROVERSIAL mining magnate turned politician Clive Palmer says he is worried Australia's top spy agency ASIO is listening into his phone calls and monitoring his emails."

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Raided East Timor

lawyer calls for inquiry: "A lawyer representing East Timor in its spying case against Australia has accused ASIO of raiding his home and office, seizing documents and "muzzling" a key whistleblower days before the case is due to begin."

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Terror suspect fails

 in passport claim: "An Australian-born Muslim suspected by authorities of having terrorist intentions has failed in his bid to have his confiscated passport returned."

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East Timor accuses Australia of spying

 for commercial gain during Timor sea negotiations | ABC Radio Australia: "East Timor accuses Australia of spying on ministers to gain a commercial advantage in Timor Sea negotiations."

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ASIO stripping citizens of passports

in bid to stop travel to Syria | The Australian: "ASIO is stripping citizens of their passports at more than twice the rate of previous years, in what terrorism experts say is a stepped-up bid to stop Australian Muslims travelling to Syria to fight with, train with, or support al-Qa'ida-linked rebel groups."

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Spying row with Indonesia

may weaken Australia's defence: "Counter-terrorism and border security sources say the standoff over spying could have a serious impact on operations if the row isn't resolved and Indonesia stands firm on its threat to downgrade co-operation."

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Australia, South Korea avoid further espionage

 embarrassment: "Australia and South Korea have avoided further espionage embarrassment after a former Canberra public servant dropped a protracted legal challenge to ASIO allegations he passed sensitive information about trade negotiations to South Korean spies."

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Indonesia halts ties with Australia

 over spying claims | ZDNet: "President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has frozen military and intelligence links with Australia over claims the latter had tapped the phones of several top government officials including Yudhoyono and the state secretary."

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Australian spy watchdog uses paper

 instead of emails | ZDNet: "The Australian security and intelligence watchdog has a novel method of ensuring that sensitive data is not leaked out of her organisation: there is no way to email out of the agency, and external communication is usually conducted by paper."

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PM must get on the front foot

 to save dire consequences: "Tony Abbott should apologise to Indonesia without delay. Even more importantly he should establish a wide-ranging inquiry, preferably a royal commission, into Australia's intelligence and security agencies."

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Australian spies have 'run amok'

 Indon | The Australian: "INDONESIA has halted all co-operation with Australia on people smuggling after the phone-tapping controversy in a major blow to Prime Minister Tony Abbott's plan to stop the boats."

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Tony Abbott must eat humble pie

 to placate Indonesia after spying scandal's sour aftertaste: "Tony Abbott should apologise to Indonesia without delay. Even more importantly, he should establish a wide-ranging inquiry, preferably a royal commission, into Australia's intelligence and security agencies."

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Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie

 introduces new anti-bikie laws into Queensland parliament | Perth Now: "He told parliament, it was in the interests of community safety for access to be granted to "other agencies" such as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)."

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RI, Oz cyber war heats up

 The Jakarta Post: "As the disagreements between Indonesia and Australia over the fate of asylum seekers and revelations of Australia’s eavesdropping on Indonesian officials rumbled on, an apparent cyber battle between the two nations intensified."

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ASIO still waiting to move

 into new HQ | Sky News Australia: "Australia's top spy agency ASIO still can't be certain when it will move into its imposing new headquarters, despite former prime minister Kevin Rudd opening the building in July."

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Muslims told to turn their backs

on ASIO | The Australian: "HUNDREDS of Muslims attending a community meeting in western Sydney were warned yesterday that they should refuse to co-operate with Australian governments and their agencies, including ASIO and the federal police."

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Australia Spied On Japanese Companies

 To Help Its Industries Negotiate Trade Deals | Techdirt: "As more information comes to light about the global snooping being conducted by the NSA and GCHQ, it is becoming clearer that much of it had little to do with combating terrorism, as a recent EFF article makes plain."

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Indonesians step up cyber attacks

 against Australia | The Australian: "INDONESIAN hackers have stepped up cyber attacks against Canberra, with Australia's peak spy agency the latest to fall victim after spying allegations enraged Jakarta."

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Australia's Domestic Spying Revealed

 - Geopolitical Monitor: "Thanks to rapid technological advances, the Australian security apparatus has reached an Orwellian scale. Its growth has not necessarily been the design of any elected government, but has rather been promoted by the Australian bureaucracy itself."

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Indonesian hackers crash Australian

 intelligence agency's site | ZDNet: " The hacking comes one week after a wave of cyberattacks against over 170 Australian sites, mainly belonging to small businesses. The attacks were in retaliation against Australia for reportedly using its Jakarta embassy for spying."

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Spooks always busy

 in South-East Asia | Perth Now: "FORGET mock outrage about Aussie spies in South-East Asia: if our spooks weren’t spying on Indonesia, China, Papua New Guinea or East Timor, then we'd really have something to worry about."

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Australia’s Intelligence Community: Behind the Times

 in an Asian Century - Geopolitical Monitor: "Over the last week, the German newspaper Der Spiegel and the Sydney Morning Herald disclosed that the Australian government was carrying out electronic surveillance and eavesdropping on phone and internet communications."

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Indonesian hackers vow payback

 over Australian spying: "Indonesian hackers are vowing a fresh wave of cyber attacks against Australia in retaliation for the spying affair, this time targetting government websites including intelligence agency ASIO."

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Has an “Out of Control” Intelligence Community

Compromised “Australia in the Asian Century”? | Dissident Voice: "Over the last week the German newspaper Der Spiegel and Sydney Morning Herald disclosed that the Australian Government was carrying out electronic surveillance and eavesdropping on phone and internet communications."

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Australian spy agency helped BHP

 negotiate trade deals: "BHP was among the companies helped by Australian spy agencies as they negotiated trade deals with Japan, a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service officer says."

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ASIO building a year from being secured

 The Australian: "THE new $630 million ASIO headquarters in Canberra, already plagued by delays and a $170m budget blowout, is unlikely to be fully operational for at least another 12 months, a year and a half after its official opening."

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Oz fighters

on notice | Perth Now: "THE risk posed by homegrown militants has taken a serious and concerning step forward."

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ASIO concerned about young Australians

 travelling to Syria | The Australian: ""HUNDREDS" of Australians are participating in the Syrian conflict, lending weight to fears among security officials that the two-year-old civil war is breeding the next generation of jihadists."

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ASIO report says there are great dangers

from radical Islamists — Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami: "Islam is Islam, and that’s it.  There is no “radical Islamism”. We should see it for what it is, and not try to draw artificial lines that Muslims themselves reject."

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ASIO keeps watch

on Islamist extremists: "The unclassified version of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) annual report to Parliament shows that in the past year the Agency investigated several hundred mostly Australia-based individuals who were advocates of a violent Islamist ideology."

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ASIO report: Australians fighting in Syria

 cause terrorism concern for spy agency - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is concerned radicalised Australians may return home from Syria with the intention of carrying out violent acts on domestic soil."

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ASIO admits

 to security breaches: "Updated | The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s director general has used the agency’s annual report to warn that terrorism and espionage remain threats to national security."

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Terrorism threat remains real

ASIO - The West Australian: "Syria is the destination for an increasing number of Australians travelling overseas for terrorist training."

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ASIO caught phone tapping ordinary Australians

 | The Australian: "ASIO has been caught tapping the phones of ordinary and unsuspecting Australians."

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Terrorism threat remains

 'real': ASIO: "Syria is the destination for an increasing number of Australians travelling overseas for terrorist training."

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NSA, ‘Five Eyes’ use Australian embassies

to gather intel on Asia — RT News: "US intelligence agencies are using Australian embassies throughout Asia to intercept data and gather information across the continent, according to the latest report based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."

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Revealed: How Australia spies

on its neighbours: "Australia's electronic spy agency is using the nation's embassies to intercept phone calls and internet data in neighbouring countries, according to new information disclosed by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden and a former Australian intelligence officer."

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Diplomatic espionage

 long a weapon in country's arsenal: "Australia has long spied on our neighbours, especially Indonesia, and we've long sought to take advantage from that in our diplomacy."

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Huawei ruled out of NBN involvement

on advice from ASIO | The Australian: "TREASURER Joe Hockey has ruled out the involvement of Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei in the National Broadband Network following fresh ASIO advice to the government."

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ASIO | Anewwe's Search for

 Eudaimonia: "Dear NSA (and all you other alphabet soup agencies), If you’re listening, listen carefully, cause we have something to say to you."

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How electronic espionage was exposed

 four decades ago: "Edward Snowden's exposés of the United States' mass surveillance and electronic espionage programs have made headlines around the world for the past four months."

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Warning of one public service job an hour axed

 from Canberra - Government News: Government News and Issues: "Commonwealth employees have been warned that one public service job an hour will be axed under the Coalition’s plans to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy by 12,000 full time positions as unions and the Opposition tap into growing fears in agencies that forced redundancies will be needed to make up the required numbers."

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George Brandis landed a former ASIO chief

 as his chief of staff. It says a lot about his take on security [$] : crikey_news: "George Brandis landed a former ASIO chief as his chief of staff. It says a lot about his take on security"

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Fear of a Brown Planet

 no, it's not all white: "There can't be many Australian comedians who have been cold-called by ASIO and asked in for a ''chat''. Comedian Nazeem Hussain says he was surprised to say the least. And not."

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Shining a light on some ill-conceived planning

at ASIO: "The ASIO building's electricity bill is no doubt a state secret but I am glad that I'm not paying the air-conditioning bill."

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Similarities between Tony Abbott

and Vladimir Putin | Crikey: "Could Tony Abbott be the Vladimir Putin of Australian politics? Of course, the two men come from wildly different national political contexts, and Abbott has no KGB history or alleged links to political violence and electoral fraud, but there are revealing similarities nonetheless."

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The danger when faith

conflict collide | The Australian: "ASIO boss David Irvine has revealed six Australians have been killed fighting the Assad regime in Syria."

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Australia hails extradition of attacker

from Pakistan to Afghanistan - UPI.com: "CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence security service has extradited to Afghanistan a former Afghan army sergeant accused of murdering three Australian soldiers."

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Australians need to stay aware

to stay alive | Herald Sun: "AT the height of the war on terror we were told to be alert, but not alarmed. The words were on fridge magnets."

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SBS boat blunder

 risks our harmony | Herald Sun: "We already have 15 jihadists in Australian jails for terrorism offences, and this week yet another Australian-raised jihadist in New York was given eight years for aiding al-Qaida."

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'Persons of Interest' : the ASIO story

Overnights - (ABC): "How much do you know about ASIO? What does it do? How much power does it have? Trevor Chappell discussed this with Haydn Keenan a Film Director who documentary "Persons of Interest" looks at the activities of ASIO in the 1960s and 70s. "

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Activist pens his memoir

with a hand from ASIO | Mudgee Guardian: "Quotes from ASIO’s files form what Mr Campbell describes as a “Greek chorus” throughout the book, which is also “peppered with poetry” in the form of Mr Campbell’s song lyrics."

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Afghan soldier accused of killing 3 Australian comrades

at patrol base deported from Pakistan: "Two Australian spy agencies — Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the Defense Intelligence Organization — had worked with Pakistan's ISI and the Afghan National Directorate of Security for six months to facilitate Hekmatullah's detention and deportation, he said."

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▶ Australian Secret Intelligence Service

YouTube: "All about Australian Secret Intelligence Service. This is another Text 2 Audio transformation using Flite. Below is the transcript for the recording:"

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Spy chief pays tribute

to fallen father | The Australian: "AS one of Australia's top spies, it's Nick Warner's job to keep secrets. Funny then that he comes from a family largely dedicated to exposing them."

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New film uncovers

ASIO’s spy operations | Green Left Weekly: "The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security service, and promotes itself as being responsible for protecting Australia from all kinds of attacks — from terrorism to politically motivated violence."

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Business joins ASIO

at cyber security HQ: "Private businesses will be invited to work alongside the nation’s spies, to help combat advanced online attacks inside the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s $700 million new headquarters, senior officials have told The Australian Financial Review."

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UFOs - scientific research

UFOs - scientific research: UFO researcher masquerades as ASIO officer: "Contacted today by (name on the file) ASIO...concerning a Mr John West ostensibly a member of the "UFO Shadow Project.""

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ASIO chief comes out of shadows for 'masterclass'

ASIO chief comes out of shadows for 'masterclass': "The chief of ASIO will be the star attraction at a $375 a head private ''masterclass'' on cyber security to be held in Melbourne next month."

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