The Latest Breaking News from Asio

Labor scraps plan to make spy agency’s 9/11-era questioning powers permanent

But Australian government will expand offences covered by rules to include promotion of communal violence and attacks on defence system

The Guardian - AU · Jun 10

‘We just want our children to be safe’: two Australian states prepare to resettle children from Syrian detention camp

Four women and nine children expected to return to Australia on Thursday with all apart from a mother and her child expected to go to Victoria

The Guardian - AU · May 6

ABC airs former Asio agent’s claims that Bondi shooters were radicalised years ago, despite agency’s criticism

Four Corners reported comments by ‘Marcus’ alleging agency was warned Sajid and Naveed Akram supported Islamic State

The Guardian - AU · Feb 10

Police legally detained 15-year-old terror suspect in hotel without lawyers knowing location, solicitor says

Ahmed Dib says legal team spent three days trying to find boy who was held with his mother in western Sydney

The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2024

Refugee Sayed Abdellatif freed after almost 12 years in Australian immigration detention

Abdellatif released to join family after years of struggling to overturn denial of visa as a result of being convicted in Egyptian trial that used evidence obtained under torture

The Guardian - AU · Apr 9, 2024

Peter Dutton doubles down on call to cancel visas of antisemitic protesters

‘Nothing controversial’ in stance, opposition leader declares after Asio boss warns that ‘words matter’

The Guardian - AU · Oct 13, 2023

Chinese academic raided by Australian police and offered $2,000 for information during trip

Exclusive: Sino-Australian relations expert had phone confiscated and was asked to provide information during ‘heavy-handed’ and ‘counterproductive’ episode

The Guardian - AU · Sep 10, 2023

Nobody Seems To Care About Clowns Anymore I, A Clown Hater, Am Most Pleased

Bye bitch.

Pedestrian.tv · Apr 15, 2023

Australia downgrades threat level for terrorist attack for first time in eight years

Agency warns against complacency as it points to increase in radical nationalism

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2022

Spy agency Asio ‘acquiesced in the use of torture’ when detaining Egyptian refugee, court told

Sayed Abdellatif has been held in immigration detention since 2012 after being convicted of terrorism offences in Cairo in a discredited trial

The Guardian - AU · Oct 12, 2022