Tag Archive for: "Australian intelligence community"
When Gough didn’t ‘crash through or crash’

Here’s a question for readers of The Strategist who’ve been fascinated by the last fortnight of reflections on Gough Whitlam’s legacy. What’s the major area of policy, front and centre in today’s political debate, where …

ASPI suggests

We’re kicking off today with an interesting question: can diplomats be interdicted as part of new screening measures to detect Ebola? This is just one issue of many raised by Lawfare blog’s Paul Rosenzweig on …

National security and civil liberties

It’s always good to see debate about civil liberties and security legislation here on The Strategist. With a number of changes to security legislation in the wind, it was appropriate that my colleagues Toby Feakin …

Reader response: security vs civil liberties

My colleague Tobias Feakin suggests that the discussion about any balance between security and civil liberties is inadequate for analysing counter-terrorism measures: it leads to ‘the establishment of rigid political positions which tend to overlook …

Cyber wrap

Canberra is kicking its cyber security activities into high gear as federal government agencies look to boost their encryption technology to thwart off spooks by turning to the private sector for innovative solutions. The government …