Supported by the Labor Party and with barely a mention in the media, "the Howard govemment late last year (2003) pushed laws through parliament that effectively gag all public protest against, or even reporting of, the use of the new detention and interrogation powers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). It is now a crime, punishable by up to five years jail, to publicly mention any operation involving ASIO's unprecedented powers - given to it less than six months earlier - to detain and interrogate people without charge, simply on the allegation that they may have information relating to terrorism
in this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD\u27s inquiry into ASIO...
Sometimes secrecy in law is required to protect vulnerable witnesses or suppress sensitive evidence....
Discusses if ASIO and the police should be able to keep people in detention for 48 hours without acc...
During 2002, on the pretext of shielding the Australian people from terrorism, the Howard government...
This article seeks to place the debate generated by the counter-terrorism legislation enacted in Aus...
In a far-reaching move against freedom of speech and political association, the Howard government ha...
Despite last-minute amendments, the federal government’s ASIO legislation is bad for human rig...
This paper assesses the legislative changes contained in the Australian Security Intelligence Organi...
Labor’s support for the government ASIO bill was dangerously naïve, argues Natasha Cica J...
ASIO doesn’t need all the emergency powers it was given two years ago, write George Williams a...
The extensively amended Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment (Terrori...
After questioning, a person’s detention should be decided by the courts, not government, write...
The product of a remarkable series of compromises, ASIO’s new powers should only operate for t...
This paper assesses the approach to indefinite detention adopted by the Australian government, sugge...
The communications revolution has fashioned new security frontiers, with cyber espionage and the inc...
in this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD\u27s inquiry into ASIO...
Sometimes secrecy in law is required to protect vulnerable witnesses or suppress sensitive evidence....
Discusses if ASIO and the police should be able to keep people in detention for 48 hours without acc...
During 2002, on the pretext of shielding the Australian people from terrorism, the Howard government...
This article seeks to place the debate generated by the counter-terrorism legislation enacted in Aus...
In a far-reaching move against freedom of speech and political association, the Howard government ha...
Despite last-minute amendments, the federal government’s ASIO legislation is bad for human rig...
This paper assesses the legislative changes contained in the Australian Security Intelligence Organi...
Labor’s support for the government ASIO bill was dangerously naïve, argues Natasha Cica J...
ASIO doesn’t need all the emergency powers it was given two years ago, write George Williams a...
The extensively amended Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Legislation Amendment (Terrori...
After questioning, a person’s detention should be decided by the courts, not government, write...
The product of a remarkable series of compromises, ASIO’s new powers should only operate for t...
This paper assesses the approach to indefinite detention adopted by the Australian government, sugge...
The communications revolution has fashioned new security frontiers, with cyber espionage and the inc...
in this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD\u27s inquiry into ASIO...
Sometimes secrecy in law is required to protect vulnerable witnesses or suppress sensitive evidence....
Discusses if ASIO and the police should be able to keep people in detention for 48 hours without acc...