IN A TENSE Senate Estimates hearing, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Deputy Director-General Miss Gilmore was subjected to extended questioning by Greens Senator David Shoebridge over Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s visit to ASIO’s headquarters in the Ben Chifley Building. This may be…
Statements made by certain online commentators (either would-be impresarios or those who scribble next to their proclamations), that they ‘represent’ Australian nationalism and have a right to reinterpret via some half-cooked ideas—should be repudiated. The right to speak not only comes from…
In its Annual Threat Assessment, ASIO’s director-general of security, Mike Burgess, has flagged changes to its terminology in discussing terror threats. Gone are the terms “Islamic Extremism” and “Right-Wing Extremism” and in their places the vaguer expressions “Religiously motivated violent extremism” and…
