EX-SBS RADIO BOSS UNAWARE OF ASIO PHONE TAP

SOURCE: Team Uzunov:

"Mr Peter Horton (pictured above), the former Melbourne
 radio station manager of Australia's multicultural public broadcaster
SBS, has told TEAM UZUNOV of his surprise that Australia's
domestic counter-intelligence service was tapping SBS telephones."

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White Pages® - Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)

SOURCE: White Pages®:

"Canberra (02) 6249 6299
Central Office
Canberra ACT 2600
Written inquiries, ASIO Central Office
GPO Box 2176,ACT 2601"

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Call to end spies' FOI exemption

SOURCE: smh.com.au:

"AUSTRALIA'S spies could be subject to increased public
scrutiny if a top-level review accepts the advice of the
Australian government's freedom-of-information watchdog."

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George Williams Speech to launch NSWCCL National ASIO Campaign 2012

SOURCE: YouTube:



"George Williams launched the New South Wales Council for
Civil Liberties National ASIO Campaign on the 19th of October
at the NSWCCL Annual Dinner to roll back extraordinary ASIO powers."

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Refugee lawyers challenge indefinite detention rule

SORCE: www.smh.com.au:

"Fifty-five asylum seekers are being held in detention
indefinitely because they have been found to be genuine refugees,
so they cannot be returned to their home countries,
but ASIO has given them an adverse security assessment,
so they cannot be settled in Australia. No third country is willing to take them."

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Macquarie Telecom to build Canberra 'bunker' datacentre | ZDNet

SOURCE: ZDNet:

"The Bunker, which is expected to open in mid-2013,
will be developed to meet Defence Signals Directorate (DSD)
and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
specifications on security, and will be backed up by
additional infrastructure deployed in Macquarie's Intellicentre 2 datacentre in Sydney."

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Sydney bombing investigation leaps forward

SOURCE: Perth Now:

"POLICE have made a series of breakthroughs in their
investigation of the terrorist bombings of the Israeli consulate
and a Jewish club in Sydney 30 years ago."

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Hugh White

SOURCE: www.lowyinterpreter.org:

" He has served as an intelligence analyst with the
Office of National Assessments; as a journalist with
the Sydney Morning Herald; as a senior adviser
on the staffs of Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke"

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Data Exploitation and Analysis

SOURCE: jobs.newscientist.com:

"With a relevant degree in a discipline calling for data analysis,
you may also have an established track record in the analysis
and exploitation of data in support of security, intelligence or
law enforcement investigations or have more general experience in data analysis."

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Refugees, education, ASIO: what else needs a royal commission?

SOURCE: Crikey:

"With a series of inquests going on at the moment,
former diplomat Bruce Haigh asks if there should be
inquiries into other mishandled, ignored and outstanding issues."

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Refugees, education, ASIO: what else needs a royal commission?

SOURCE: www.crikey.com.au/

It was with some relief that Australians learnt that the federal
government had agreed to a wide-ranging inquiry into institutionalised
child abuse in Australia over a number of decades.

Police phone intercept evidence almost doubles in one year

SOURCE: www.heraldsun.com.au/

POLICE are increasingly bugging telephones to make arrests, according to new figures to be released by the Government today.

Upgrading central city hospitals would safeguard against disaster

SOURCE: smh.com.au:

"Our elite members of the state and federal police forces,
ASIO, Emergency Management Australia and the
NSW Fire Brigade spend a lot of time planning how
they would cope with either a man-made or a natural disaster
 in the central business district of our city."

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ASIO threat on day leave - man free to visit pregnant wife

SOURCE: thetelegraph.com.au:

"A DETAINED refugee deemed a security threat by ASIO
has been permitted home visits to his wife,
who is due to give birth this month."

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An exercise in myth-making

SOURCE: World Socialist Web Site:

"Within days an internal ASIO [Australian Security Intelligence Organisation]
document compiled on the deputy prime minister was on its way to
one of ASIO’s favoured journalists,
The Bulletin’s Peter Samuel. The Bulletin’s"

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UN gives Canberra deadline to address refugee health fears

SOURCE: theAge:

"THE United Nations has given Australia a month to show
how it will ensure the mental and physical safety of two refugees,
one of whom tried to commit suicide this month."

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ASIO-negative refugee starts hunger strike in Melbourne detention

SOURCE: Refugee Action Coalition:

"The Tamil refugee who successfully challenged the government
in the recent High Court case over ASIO security assessments
 is on his third day of a hunger strike in the
Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation detention centre."

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Refugee Action Coalition

SOURCE: Refugee Action Coalition:

"A 28 year old Tamil refugee at the Melbourne Immigration
Transit Accommodation detention centre attempted suicide
in the early hours of this morning (Thursday 15 November)."

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UN to Canberra: Please explain

SOURCE: SMH:

"THE United Nations has given Australia a month to show
how it will ''ensure'' the mental and physical safety of two refugees,
one of whom tried to commit suicide earlier this month."

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Nauru refugee hunger striker taken to hospital

SOURCE: World Socialist Web Site:

"Detainees blacklisted by ASIO can also potentially remain
in detention indefinitely, because they cannot legally
be returned to their home countries, where they would face persecution."

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