12 Sep 2014: Kellie Tranter: Whatever the prime minister and Asio director-general say in public, the intelligence agency’s own reports show they know foreign wars are a real cause of radicalisation
10 Sep 2014: Richard Ackland: The overblown security concoction being cooked up by George Brandis and our security elite is more about protecting the spy establishment than the nation
10 Sep 2014:
Immigration minister says that while he will not discuss any specific threats, the repercussions of conflicts in the Middle East could reach Australia
26 Aug 2014: Bill Rowlings: Wide-ranging national security provisions have been sold as a response to Australian jihadists leaving to fight in the middle east, but there are much bigger targets for spies at home
25 Jul 2014: Richard Ackland: Asio will always want more in its mission to 'save our lives'. Its ever-growing collection of metadata is today's main mission – but where will it stop?
21 Jul 2014:
David Irvine tells Senate committee that Australia's spy agency is not conducting mass-scale surveillance and only 'a few thousand' people each year are of intelligence interest