Australians received two security assessments on separate days this week but need to see them as directly related. The first was a rare joint statement from the Five Eyes cybersecurity agency heads on digital threats …
Tag Archive for: "Bondi terror attack"
When the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation speaks, people tend to listen. And in his annual threat assessment address last night – his seventh – Mike Burgess was speaking to multiple audiences, including …
So last month’s Bondi terrorist attack has prompted an independent review into Australia’s federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. But, since the same reviewer has already told a former government that the laws under which …
A Bondi royal commission would let the intelligence community speak, and expose some polite fictions
As the first public figure to call for a royal commission into the Bondi atrocity, I initially thought making that case was redundant. Surely the federal government would act quickly along those lines? After all, …
Australians want answers and reassurance. They want to believe that tragedy could have been prevented if only someone had acted differently. Politics amplifies that instinct, demanding decisive action, new laws and visible accountability. But when …