In pursuing a case against three Australians of Sri Lankan Tamil background for supplying funds to the LTTE, the AFP relied on information provided or vetted by the Sri Lankan government, writes Bruce Haigh.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Housing market a sleeper issue for Gen Y
Crikey readers weigh in on ASIO, the horrors of the housing market and housing affordability and the NSW ALP.
The answer is ASIO
Another security announcement, another boost for ASIO. It doesn’t take an alfoil-wearing conspiracy theorist to see a pattern, the Government is keen to bolster its security credentials.
Terror white paper: shiny new language, same old laws
The counter-terrorism white paper issued today is long overdue and foreshadows a welcome shift in discourse on terrorism, writes Greens Senator Scott Ludlam.
Why questioning ASIO is important
It is important to ask important questions on ASIO, regardless of how inconvenient some may find the answers, writes Africa-based UN adviser Robert Johnson.
Why Australians are hypocrites on refugees
Last week ASIO declared several Tamil refugees from the Oceanic Viking a threat to national security. But what about the Israeli political leaders who recently came to our shore and were fawned over by our media despite their own possible war crimes? asks Greg Barns.
Sparrow misses the point about ASIO, screening asylum seekers
Even if people disagree with ASIO, some security screening of those entering Australia, whether as refugees, immigrants or visitors, is clearly required, writes Neil James of the Australian Defence Association.
Curr: How ASIO destroys lives
Adverse security assessments by ASIO can shatter asylum seekers’ lives — yet no one is even allowed to know how these assessments are made, writes the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre’s Pamela Curr.
ASIO, not the government, calling the shots on refugees
ASIO says that five refugees from Oceanic Viking constitute a threat to national security. How can this be a healthy democratic country when a secret agency plays such a major role in a political debate, without even making its sources available?
Risky refugees trap Rudd
Four of the Tamil asylum seekers from the Oceanic Viking kerfuffle have been rejected for security reasons, putting the government in a difficult conundrum. They can’t send them back, can’t give them Australian visas and its unlikely any other country will want them. What now?
What price ASIO’s history? About $1.8 million apparently
ASIO is giving a defence academic, ANU Professor David Horner, a former soldier and high-profile military historian, nearly $1.8 million to write its history.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Fast trainspotting
Crikey readers love their train spotting and weigh in on the possibility of fast trains in Australia. Plus, what is happening with ASIO and the difficulties with the abortion debate.
ASIO can’t be bothered: less accountable, less productive
Despite ASIO’s endlessly increasing budget, its latest annual report shows an organisation doing less work and being less accountable — even the report itself is lazily cobbled together.
The terror raid leak was serious. We must find the source
Thanks to the leaking of the terror raids in Melbourne by The Oz
By 2010, ASIO will have doubled in size
Last night, ASIO appeared before the Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee.
Swan confronts the enemy within, and without
The Government used the Budget to push through a significant increase in spending on counter-terrorism, national security and border protection.
Essay: The many renditions of Mamdouh Habib
Let’s take a swift trip into the heart of darkness, writes Richard Neville.
Budget countdown: ASIO growth freeze imminent?
The 2009 Budget might finally spell the end of the remorseless growth of ASIO, the most successful government body of the Howard era.
ASIO reveals China-linked campaign to dominate Australia’s media
Australia’s relationship with China is about to be rocked by revelations of a major Chinese-linked attempt to dominate Australia’s media and other cultural influences, writes Bernard Keane.
Howard loyalist Farmer to key diplomatic post
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is set to announce that Australia’s new ambassador to the United Nations in New York is none other than Bill Farmer. writes Alex MItchell.
Ul-Haque case gives ASIO licence to play rough
The failure of Mr. Carnell to take a similar view as Justice Adams did about the mistreatment of Mr. Ul-Haque by ASIO officers is disturbing, writes Greg Barns.
Tips and rumours
I saw Malcolm Turnbull staffer, Patrick McGrath, in the city on Friday. He was wearing Union Jack cufflinks. Has anyone told Malcolm? Apropos the ATO. There is also another side to their behaviour particularly where small business and low wealth individuals are concerned. In the past five years we have expended $250K on my wife’s […]
Time to bring the Crime Commission down a peg
Does the ACC have a practice of keeping dossiers on individuals its officers happen to come across in their travels, asks Greg Barns.
ASIO’s weird, incompetent little cold war
You can get a sense of the malice and paranoia that dominated ASIO’s operations by looking at the files now available under the 30-year rule, writes Jeff Sparrow.
