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Questions continue to grow about the extent of the Attorney-General Department’s work on data retention, and whether it is hiding it from scrutiny. Is AGD quietly developing legislation on data retention?

The government’s much-vaunted new “Cyber Security Centre” will have no legislation, no central leadership and no money. But it will have “unclassified areas”.

A national security committee member’s poor judgment has inflicted serious damage on the push for data retention by Australia’s security agencies.

There is still confusion about what data would be retained under the federal government’s highly contentious data retention proposals — and it arises from the government itself.

The concept of “balance” repeatedly invoked by politicians on national security — while extending the powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies, curbing the rights of Australians — is flawed.

Wild claims about cybercrime are a key tool in inflating spending on cybersecurity and expanding the powers of governments, like the latest proposal for two-year data retention.

There is rising concern about the return of Workchoices, today’s Essential Report finds, and voters don’t believe workers will be better off under an Abbott government.

We already know what could happen if proposals to dramatically extend surveillance and intelligence-gathering powers are allowed to proceed.

After more than two months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, the high-powered Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has agreed to a government reference on a major national security review.

The government has moved to expand national security powers as we integrate further into America’s War on Terror.

Airport body scanners have no demonstrated value, but the government is spending $28 million on them.

A wide-ranging bill aimed at enabling foreign governments to access Australians’ online and telecommunications data is expected to emerge from committee this week.

The Attorney-General’s department, struggling to explain why ASIO needs wider powers, chooses the fish.

The government has put its money where its mouth is when it comes to backing its increasingly hardline rhetoric on border security, flagging $1.2 billion Australia’s borders.

Times Square is a tourist destination for thousands of people, how can you possibly keep it safe? NY Times asks security experts for advice, who say cameras and training help but sometimes not much can be done.

Australia’s population is too small for adequate national security. We need to grow so we can adequately protect ourselves from enemies without outside help, writes Greg Sheridan.

The Pentagon is set to tell Congress that climate change is a real and present threat to national security. It is a sign of these strange times when the US military’s stance on climate change is closer to Bob Brown’s than that of any major Australian party.

The ALP may be winning the battle for voter numbers, but it is losing the ideological war, reports Possum Comitatus: the latest Essential Report finds the Government is now trailing the Coalition on issues like the economy, national security and interest rates.