The 16th of September 2021 will be remembered as the day Australia’s strategic status changed forever. The AUKUS security partnership and its headline announcement that the United Kingdom and the United States will assist Australia …
A policy options paper from the National Security College at the Australian National University, titled ‘Improving national security governance’, proposes reforms to hold Australia’s security and intelligence agencies more accountable as we move into an …
ASPI celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. This series looks at ASPI’s work since its creation in August 2001. Terrorism changed Canberra in ways big and small. The 9/11 era and the Bali bombings caused …
In November 2016, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced an independent review of Australia’s national intelligence community (NIC) to evaluate its operations and determine if it was effectively serving our national interests. A central aim of …
In a previous post, I noted that the Richardson review of the legislative framework of Australia’s intelligence community robustly rejected many of the claims made for relaxing the constraints on agencies, and its reassertion of …