John Howard didn’t have too much support from Australian intelligence in deciding to go to war against Iraq. The Prime Minister got just enough cover from the Office of National Assessments to meet political needs. …
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Senior government officials met in Canberra this week to discuss how to ensure more young Australians don’t seek out or become drawn in to the militant Salafist orbit of ISIS, al Qaeda and other such …
The Beat Australian Crime Commission heads East Members of the Australian Border Force and Australian Federal Police have been joined in Hong Kong by a transnational crime expert from the Crime Commission to help counter organised …
The beheading of 82-year-old archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad by Islamic State (IS) was met with universal disgust. Asaad worked as the chief archaeologist of the Roman temples, tombs and theatre at Palmyra for over 50 years …
The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) report Organised crime in Australia 2015 is derived from criminal intelligence, but it’s more useful to understand it as persuasive communication. In my recent post, I highlighted a similar report …