David Wroe is national security correspondent for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald in Canberra.
The cyber attacks that sparked a deliberate shutdown of the Census website on Tuesday night appear to have been small-scale and likely carried out by ordinary "hacktivists" rather than sophisticated organisations or governments, experts and insiders say.
Chinese fighter plane hangars revealed in disturbing new satellite images of the South China Sea would allow Beijing to rapidly shift military hardware onto artificial islands to control the key waterways, Australia's former national security adviser says.
"Great big man he was. How he never got hit surprises me to this day."
Former US Ambassador and Labor leader Kim Beazley has warned that "immense responsibilities" will fall on Australia's shoulders to steer Donald Trump towards a more responsible foreign policy should the erratic billionaire become US President.
Australia's largest business peak body has urged the nation to "keep in perspective" Chinese investment amid rising concern that China's possible ownership of half the NSW power grid could imperil national security.
The Australian Signals Directorate, a grey and dull-looking building in the defence precinct on a hill above Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, houses the nation's offensive cyber capability.
Goldfinger, as the James Bond film's title song had it, was the man with the Midas touch.
Australia is likely to have military assets in the South China Sea to gather vital intelligence on a joint drill between Chinese and Russian forces next month, Fairfax Media understands.
Whether Malcolm Turnbull wound up with a one-seat or a two-seat majority, life was going to be tough for the next three years.
Malcolm Turnbull will be left with the barest majority of one seat in Parliament after the Australian Electoral Commission called the disputed seat of Herbert for Labor by just 37 votes.
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