Issues raised over how law enforcement access data News The commonwealth ombud found Victoria Police was the “most prolific” agency accessing data for purposes not covered by the law.
Premium Case studies Meet the diplomat deleting Russian ransomware profitability March 19, 2024 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology Hitting Russian nationals with sanctions over cybercrime is all about price signals. Are the days of cheap money from extortion numbered?
Australia invests $3 million in dengue fever research, levels up Laos partnership March 7, 2024 By Melissa Coade Federal Australia and Laos commit to long-term climate finance, addressing transnational crime, and more people-to-people talks.
Premium Insights and analysis National cabinet backs whole-of-system reforms to ease health system pressures, makes GST breakthrough December 7, 2023 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Working better together has been the unifying theme of the latest meeting convening all the state and territory premieres and first ministers.
Policing v mental health support: Time for a paradigm shift in the ACT November 30, 2023 By Alex Caruana Australian Capital Territory Our police officers should be allowed to focus their efforts on real policing, not drug or mental-health related crises.
ASQA integrity team unleashed on bad-faith VET providers October 4, 2023 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry Skills and training minister Brendan O’Connor has unveiled a new integrity unit to go after providers who rort the VET system.
What Australia gets wrong about the right to protest August 30, 2023 By Sarah Moulds Community & Social Australians might think their right to protest march in the streets is constitutionally guaranteed, but it isn’t.
Australia’s new ambassador role to counter modern slavery, human trafficking February 13, 2023 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry Penny Wong and Mark Dreyfus have met with their Indonesian counterparts to discuss people smuggling and trafficking in persons.
Monitoring period to double for child sex offenders in Queensland November 30, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social First-time child sex offenders will soon be subject to a 10-year monitoring period by state law enforcement under new laws to pass this week.
Post-pandemic Melbourne airports chalk up greatest number of antisocial travel incidents October 3, 2022 By Melissa Coade Federal The AFP dealt with 748 incidents at airports in the past seven months, including public disturbances, intoxication and offensive behaviour.
Premium Insights and analysis Police self-stamped warrants, used unauthorised magistrates: Ombud September 8, 2022 By Julian Bajkowski Communications & Technology The commonwealth ombud has called out the use of stamps instead of signatures when authorising interception of stored communications.
Premium Columnists Jobs & Skills Summit outcomes mean heavy lifting for Home Affairs September 5, 2022 By Abul Rizvi Community & Social For the bureaucrats responsible for delivering on some of the big agenda items of last week’s Jobs & Skills summit, few will be as busy as Home Affairs.
Foreign spies and gangsters: Why Australia needs a national security strategy August 15, 2022 By Brendan Walker-Munro Defence Of all the Five Eyes nations, Australia is the only one without a publicly articulated national security strategy.
Premium Insights and analysis Australian agencies turn technology against people trafficking August 1, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Mark Dreyfus says the Attorney-General’s department, the AFP and other agencies are working hard to break the cycle of human trafficking.
Human capability of our national security workforce is vital to strategic success December 2, 2021 By Margaret Joseph Defence There has been little public attention paid to the unique challenges that arise for Australia’s national security workforce.