Dozens of Territory citizens including current federal MP Warren Snowdon, former NT News editor Jim Bowditch, pearling magnate Nick Paspaley Sr and activist Rob Wesley-Smith were the subjects of ASIO ...

The plot to murder a federal minister at a Sydney television studio is one of the nation's great untold stories. It went like this. In 1974, the TV chat show Frost Over Australia invited Aboriginal ...

Hundreds of ASIO files are now available to any web surfer. Under the ’30 year rule’ the files are becoming public. They are a fascinating read. We spied on many, including Australian politician Dr ...

The only thing worse, notes Meredith Burgmann in Dirty Secrets, than discovering that your personal file held by Australia’s domestic political police, ASIO, is disappointingly thin is to find out ...

But the question I keep getting asked is ‘How effective is ASIO today?’ My answer is ‘We really don’t know but the evidence of thirty years ago is not very reassuring’. Hundreds of ASIO files are now ...