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Lessons from the CBA money-laundering scandal

The recent Commonwealth Bank money-laundering and terrorism-financing scandal provides a couple of important lessons. It highlights the vital role that the private sector plays in fighting crime and terrorism and protecting national security, and it …

Banks ‘de-risking’: a threat to national security?

De-risking practices initiated by Australia’s financial institutions are inadvertently threatening our national security because they perpetuate high risk unregulated banking channels which allow terrorist groups to move illicit funds without detection. This contemporary phenomenon, also …

The Beat

This week on The Beat: drug use and gambling, Colombian organised crime, Taliban funding from organised crime, Facebook cracking down on extremists, the PJCIS declaration of the al-Raqqa province, US Homeland Security recommendations, Australia’s Muslim …