Category: Australian intelligence

Intelligence Watchdog to Examine Secret Australian Trial Laws

The ability for courts to hold trials in secret to deal with national security matters will be scrutinised at a two-day hearing in Canberra. Grant Donaldson, Australia’s Independent National Security Legislation Monitor, will hear from government officials, intelligence bosses, prosecutors and human rights advocates. There will also be a session with the legal team for…


Australia Needs to Get Smart About China

Commentary It’s 1985, and somewhere in the calm waters of South-East Asia, an Australian submarine slips beneath the surface on a moonless night. Its presence and disappearance go unnoticed as it was business as usual for the world on both sides of the iron curtain. Upon reflection, it was a time of peace and certainty….