Today
- Exclusive
- AUKUS
Government poised to shake up spy, security chiefs
The Albanese government has the opportunity to reshape the leadership of the military and security agencies in coming months.
- Andrew Tillett
This Month
Welcome to WeWork for spies
In this co-working space, only the cappuccino isn’t classified. Servicing the spook sector is a rare bright spot in the market for office facilities,
- Daniel Flatley
March
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
‘I would go tomorrow’: MPs fear veto on Ukraine trip
Overly cautious bureaucrats could stop senior politicians from taking up an invitation to visit war-torn Kyiv.
- Andrew Tillett
Why this cyber chief thinks your electric car is a security risk
Chinese technology is “inherently suspect”, a top US cybersecurity official says.
- Andrew Tillett
PM backs spy chief’s refusal to name turncoat ex-MP
Anthony Albanese retains confidence in ASIO boss Mike Burgess, who is under pressure to reveal the identity of a former politician cultivated by foreign spies.
- Andrew Tillett
In China a poor social score affects where you can sleep, dine or live
The social credit system is designed to be a huge network of control covering businesses and government agencies as well as individuals.
- Minxin Pei
February
- Opinion
- Keating at 80
Paul Keating’s critics could not be more wrong on AUKUS
It’s the former PM who understands that the world has changed, and we can no longer take American power for granted to keep Asia stable and Australia safe.
- Hugh White
- Updated
- Mike Burgess
Spy boss defies pressure to name ex-MP who betrayed Australia
Mike Burgess has defied a political firestorm pressuring him to name the former politician who he revealed was recruited by a foreign spy agency and betrayed Australia.
- Andrew Tillett
Ex-politician ‘sold out Australia’: spy chief
Delivering his annual security threat assessment, ASIO chief Mike Burgess has declassified details of a foreign intelligence service’s activities in Australia.
- Andrew Tillett
January
- Opinion
- Opinion
There is no hidden hawk agenda in our security services
The job of our security services is to warn and inform governments. There is no deep-state divide between the spooks and the diplomats, just professionals doing their job.
- Mike Hughes
China rare earth bans put heat on Australia to respond
“Over-reliance on one supplier of any one good or technology puts you in a vulnerable position, and that’s what we want to change,” says the resources minister.
- Jacob Greber
PM vows full release of 2003 Iraq War cabinet documents
“Australians do deserve to know the basis upon which the decision was made to send Australia to war,” the prime minister says.
- Jacob Greber
December 2023
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Australia needs a formal national security strategy
The government has reached a point where it can no longer avoid open discussion of fundamental questions about unpreparedness for strategic trouble ahead.
- Updated
- Rory Medcalf
Red Sea call ‘risks telegraphing capability concerns to adversaries’
The government’s reluctance to send a warship to the Red Sea has the potential to flag internal concerns to adversaries over Australia’s naval capability, a former naval warfare officer warns.
- Tom Rabe
PM offers diplomats against Red Sea attacks, no ships
The stance was immediately slammed by the Coalition as weak, out of step with allies, and deaf to the broader inflationary threat posed by the Houthi attacks.
- Jacob Greber and Matthew Cranston
Convicted terrorist released from jail after 20 years
Abdul Nacer Benbrika had been convicted of plotting terrorist attacks in 2005.
- Michael Pelly
Albanese condemns antisemitism amid protests outside Lowy event
The prime minister reiterated his firm opposition to antisemitism in a speech to the Lowy Institute on Tuesday night, as Pro-Palestine demonstrators rallied outside.
- Jacob Greber and Emma Connors
Landmark national security trial of media mogul opens in Hong Kong
The closely watched case is widely seen as a trial of press freedom and a test for judicial independence in the Asian financial hub.
- Kanis Leung
‘Our region is first priority’: still no answer on ships to Red Sea
The longer the delay, the more likely the answer to a US request for navy assistance in the Red Sea will be “thanks, but no thanks”, a top defence analyst says.
- Updated
- Jacob Greber
Spy boss warns of intelligence failure without faster tech adoption
The director-general of the Office of National Intelligence says policymakers need to ensure technology is adopted faster or risk an intelligence failure.
- Matthew Cranston