IGIS

“We have reached out to each individual,” ASIO says. Destroy after reading. Do NOT retain. DO NOT REPLY ALL.

The government has been urged to adopt centralised oversight of the entire national intelligence community — 10 commonwealth agencies in total.

Keeping mum is business as usual for the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) but its director-general has decided there are also benefits to popping up in public from time to time. “No media and no profile presents its own problems, so here I am,” says ASIS chief Paul Symon.

Too many small, interpersonal matters are being dressed up as whistleblowing, says the nation’s former integrity commissioner who will soon complete a statutory two-year review of the Commonwealth’s disclosure law.