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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Islamic State security concerns feed divisions in Liberal ranks | afr.com

 "Senior business figures have been distracted by a chilling warning from ASIO, Australia's domestic intelligence agency, about the online reach into our workplaces of Islamic State."



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Labor MP Andrew Leigh’s search for who leaked secret Iraq report

"In March that year Andrew Wilkie quit as an intelligence analyst at the Office of National Assessments and went public with his criticism of the decision by the government of John Howard to join the invasion of Iraq."



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Adelaide ponders value of nuclear waste dump

"Nuclear involvement in this part of Australia already has negative associations. Between 1953 and 1963, South Australia was the location for a series of British nuclear bomb tests, first at Emu Field and then at Maralinga, 800km northwest of the state capital Adelaide, in the vast military testing zone known as the Woomera Prohibited Area."



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Australian feds cannot tell senator if they have his metadata

 "So far, 21 agencies are able to access metadata, including the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the AFP, state and territory police forces, state anti-corruption commissions, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Crime Commission, and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection."



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Fall of Palmyra is ‘the beginning of the end’

 "Terrorism expert and former Australian Secret Intelligence Service agent Warren Reed told Australia News the loss of Palmyra showed IS was “on the downward slide”."



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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

 "The Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation [ASIO] provides interesting and challenging work in an ever changing environment requiring talented people who are highly capable, dedicated, adaptable and resilient."



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ISIS: Is fall of Palmyra ‘the beginning of the end’ for terror group?

"Terrorism expert and former Australian Secret Intelligence Service agent Warren Reed told news.com.au the loss of Palmyra showed IS was “on the downward slide”."



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East Timorese rise against Australia exploiting their maritime sovereignty

"The present government of East Timor has accused the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), of using espionage against their ministers during the period of negotiation of existing maritime borders to gain strategic and commercial advantages, and demands that the treaty be annulled. "



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After Brussels, a new challenge for Defence

 "If an enemy tried to bomb our roads, we'd expect the air force to stop them. What, exactly, is the difference between the physical destruction of infrastructure like this and the destruction of, say, the banking, telecommunications or electricity networks? As well as the Australian Signals Directorate, the military has established a "multi-agency Cyber Security Centre" to "strengthen Australia's defences", however the boundary of defence's responsibility has been left determinedly opaque."



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Indonesian, Australian warships train together for Exercise Cassowary - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"Indonesia cancelled the exercise in 2013 after a diplomatic spat following allegations Australian spies hacked the Indonesian president's phone."



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People smugglers paid by Australian spy, Indonesia police documents allege | Australia news | The Guardian

 "New documents allege an Asis officer paid $US31,000 to people smugglers after customs authorities escorted their boat back to Indonesian waters"



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