COVID impact on intelligence agencies to be examined Federal The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) will use its annual review of the administration, expenditure and financial statements of six national intelligence
Brazen Hussies: women seeing then what was unseeable before March 22, 2021 By Felicity Neale Community & Social It’s 1970. The situation is at boiling point. Pockets of young women have begun organising in suburban lounge rooms, sitting cross-legged on wall-to-wall carpeted floors
A year from the Christchurch terror attacks, NZ intelligence records a surge in reports February 27, 2020 By Alexander Gillespie Editors' Picks The Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year have prompted a significant rise in tip-offs about people expressing extremist views, according to a report
Why is there no APS college? ASIO head Duncan Lewis says public service needs its own school September 11, 2019 By Stephen Easton Defence Retiring ASIO head Duncan Lewis says the Australian Public Service “could do better” by offering a lot more education and training to prepare its leaders,
From code-breaking and cyber security to counter-terrorism: ASD boss picked to lead ASIO August 8, 2019 By Stephen Easton Defence Mike Burgess will take over as head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation on September 15 after the retirement of Duncan Lewis, leaving a new
Who's in line to lead ASIO? Major moves draw congratulations, trepidation and speculation July 29, 2019 By Stephen Easton Economy & Industry Last week’s major movements at the top of the Australian Public Service were followed by tributes, trepidation and congratulations, as well as a report that
Labor declares 'great respect' for ASIO and ASIS after Paul Keating calls for a clean-out May 6, 2019 By Stephen Easton Federal Remember a time, years ago, certainly before the cascade of consequences that followed the September 11 attacks, when a healthy dose of scepticism about the
Three good old dust-ups from the first day of estimates October 24, 2017 By Stephen Easton News As usual there were plenty of dust-ups between the Dorothy Dixers on the first day of the Senate’s supplementary estimates hearings yesterday. Here’s a run-down
Jobwatch: lead ACMA through change; a spot of cricket; calling top lawyers June 5, 2017 By The Mandarin Career Matters Want to lead the communications and media regulator? Opportunities are also open for a senior executive to make their mark at ASIO, for a top
PM warns to watch the warmware, as another cyber security team stands up January 25, 2017 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology The Prime Minister has warned that human operators or “warmware” represent the biggest cyber risk, as his government opens a new cross-agency cyber security body
