Six women in danger dossier

Six women in danger dossier: "SIX women living in Australia have been linked by US intelligence agencies to an al-Qaeda plot to recruit women for terrorist attacks, according to a diplomatic cable discussing Australian links to the international jihadi organisation."

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WikiLeaks cables on Australia: highlights from WikiLeaks cables released on Australia | Crikey

WikiLeaks cables on Australia: highlights from WikiLeaks cables released on Australia | Crikey: "
After a stoush with Jonathan Holmes on Twitter last night after Media Watch accused Fairfax of hoarding diplomatic cables for commercial purposes, WikiLeaks promised overnight to make public all available Australian cables. And just after 11.30am AEST, after an abortive released of all the Viennese cables, it released the remaining Australian cables. Here are some highlights so far, which will be updated as we go through them:"

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Wikileaks publishes Aussie terror list

Wikileaks publishes Aussie terror list: "Wikileaks has published details of 23 Australians, including a NSW grandmother, believed to have links to a radical Yemeni cleric with ties to an offshoot of terrorist group al-Qaeda."

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Warnings Worth Heeding (Cory Bernardi)

Warnings Worth Heeding (Cory Bernardi): "One such source is the Director-General of ASIO - Australia’s domestic national security organisation."

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Russell scales up - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

Russell scales up - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times:

 "TAKING SHAPE: Construction of the $589 million ASIO head-quarters in Parkes Way is 65 per cent complete."

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Cybercrime bill has 'serious flaws', says Greens Senator Scott Ludlam | The Australian

GREENS Senator Scott Ludlam has told the Gillard government to fix "serious flaws" in its proposed Cybercrime Bill, which will force ISPs to collect real-time internet traffic data and make it available for police locally and internationally for up to 30 days.

ASIO's overseas powers dramatically expanded - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A pattern established under the Howard government - that of rapidly pushing through laws to enhance the powers of the "national security" agencies - was again repeated by the Labor Government.

2011 Media Release: President reports on Mr Al Jenabi v Commonwealth of Australia (Department of Immigration and Citizenship)

President of the Australian Human Rights Commission Catherine Branson QC has released her report into a complaint made by Mr Al Jenabi who claimed his right to be free from arbitrary detention had been breached.

The ASIO Intelligence Gathering Antenna Disguised As A Pencil Pine - Local Business - Sunbury, Victoria | Facebook

Local Business - Sunbury, Victoria | Facebook

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Internet use ‘rampant’: ASIO boss • The Register

"The rampant use of the Internet, the democratization of communication, has resulted in new and effective means for individuals to propagate and absorb unfettered ideas and information and to be radicalized – literally, in their lounge rooms"

Mosman bomb hoax father's crim-catching software

"The 'data stream profiling' software can determine the country of origin of a person, their education, gender, whether they are left or right handed, their native language, if they're a touch typist and their year of birth just by monitoring what they type, according to a brochure listed on its website."

ASIO and me - Eureka Street

"Recently I was interviewed on the ABC 7.30 ACT television program about my Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) file. It was a human interest story to accompany an item about the current exhibition called 'Persons of Interest: The ASIO Files', in Sydney at the Justice and Police Museum. I had first learned in passing of the existence of this file from a Canberra Times journalist, Philip Dorling, sometime in 2008. It took me more than a year until February 2010 to eventually obtain my file after applying to the National Archives of Australia."

Australian government suppresses mounting unrest in refugee detention centres

"The Labor government has responded with severe repression to a wave of refugee unrest throughout Australia’s 16 detention facilities, caused by prolonged periods of detention and frustration over their uncertain future. Desperate protests by inmates, attempting to draw public attention to the abuse of their basic legal and democratic rights, are being met by police violence, the arbitrary removal of demonstrators to high-security prisons and threats by Prime Minister Gillard and her ministers to retaliate by stripping refugees of their fundamental right to asylum."

Norway-style, lone-wolf terror raids possible in Australia: ASIO | MAARS News

"AUSTRALIA could suffer the sort of lone-wolf terror attack that occurred in Norway, the head of the domestic intelligence agency warned."

'Evil' hacker had control of NBN trial partner for six weeks, say police | Information, Gadgets, Mobile Phones News & Reviews | News.com.au

"AN unemployed truck driver who goes by the online name 'Evil' has been charged with hacking into one the NBN service providers."

Local extremists the threat, says ASIO chief

"THE death of Obama bin Laden has not made Australia any safer from terrorist attacks, which most likely would come from ''home-grown'' extremists with few, if any, links to international terror organisations."

ASIO spies on activist - Government - News - Inner West Courier

"SHE’D heard the rumours, but Dr Meredith Burgmann didn’t believe her every move was being recorded by secret government agents - until she saw this photo."

The great privacy debate - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"OK, let's have a debate about privacy. But before we get around to the dastardly Murdoch press, let's be honest about a couple of things. And the first is that we have very little privacy left anyway."

Terror threat level unchanged: McClelland

: "The Sydney Opera House's image in an online jihadist magazine does not change Australia's terrorist threat level, federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland says."

'WikiLeaks amendment' gives ASIO more power | Green Left Weekly

"This would include Australian citizens involved in non-violent political activities abroad, which do not constitute a threat to Australia’s security."