Cont'd...

On Tuesday, ASIO officers raided the home of a former ASIS officer. The names of ASIS officers, serving or retired, cannot be revealed. The Opposition was briefed on Wednesday and Attorney-General George Brandis made a statement in the Senate.

Brandis said he issued the warrant, at the request of ASIO, on the grounds that the documents and electronic data collected contained intelligence relating to security matters.

Under section 39 of the Intelligence Services Act 2001, it is a criminal offence for a current or former officer of ASIS to communicate "any information or matter that was prepared by or on behalf of ASIS in connection with its functions or relates to the performance by ASIS of its functions", where the information has come into his possession by reason of his being or having been an officer of ASIS.

To no-one's surprise, the raid, initiated by ASIO, was loudly condemned by Greens leader Christine Milne, Green Senator Scott Ludlum and that reliable warhorse of the Left, Father Frank Brennan, and given expansive coverage by the Left's media allies at the ABC and Fairfax Media.

Barely had the Senate convened before Milne was demanding that the Attorney-General provide reasons for the raid.

Not that she had not made her own mind up.

She said it was to prevent the unnamed ASIS officer travelling to The Hague to give evidence in a dispute between Australia and East Timor about maritime boundaries which could affect the resource-sharing deal struck between former foreign minister Alexander Downer and the East Timorese government.

"It is a shocking thing that, as this negotiation is going on in The Hague, the Attorney-General in Australia authorises the raid," she said.

"There is no suggestion here that the whistleblower who was going to attend to give evidence in The Hague was in any way a threat to national security."

But if the so-called "whistleblower" is, as the issuance of the warrant would suggest, a rogue former intelligence officer much like the US defector Edward Snowden, now in the arms of his Soviet handlers while The Guardian and the ABC collaborate to distribute information from his stolen cache of secret files, surely it is the duty of the Australian government to act.

Further, as the Attorney-General painstakingly pointed out to Ludlum, when the director-general of ASIO requests such a warrant, it may only be issued if the Attorney-General is satisfied that it is necessary to protect the Commonwealth and its people from espionage, sabotage, politically-motivated violence, attacks on Australia's defence system, or acts of foreign interference; and the protection of Australia's territorial and border integrity from serious threats.

Unfortunately, there is little any nation can do to prevent rogue agents like the convicted former US marine Bradley Manning, who provided stolen information to fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, or Snowden, or the former ASIS officer, as we may find when ASIO concludes its investigation.

Their actions are heinous, particularly so when they lead to the identification of those who work in the field of intelligence and guard our national interest. Those from the Left, like the Greens and their media friends at The Guardian and the ABC and elsewhere, who glorify the Assanges, the Mannings, the Snowdens and those who leak sensitive national intelligence material and endanger lives, betray the national interest and deserve nothing but utter contempt.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/labor-left-right-out-of-matters-of...

Dsmithy70 wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 1:39pm:


Nothing there to refute, is there? It's all fact, in plain text. So you resort to calling me teaspoon. Is that what passes for wit among you lefties?

Vic wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 1:47pm:


What about the times when former PM Rudd sent 31-year-old chief of staff, Alister Jordan in his place to national security council meetings, or when Gillard - as DPM - sent her former bodyguard and junior staff member Andrew Stark instead of attending herself? That doesn't seem to me like Labor takes our security seriously in the least.

Dsmithy70 wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:13pm:


If that's how you justify things, then you cannot possibly justify the continued attacks by your merry band of leftards on Abbott over wrongful allegations of assault when he was a University student - allegations for which there is no proof, no witness willing to sign a stat dec and for which he served no time in prison or was fined. Piers' article is well-documented, these allegations against Abbott are as weak as wet paper.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:20pm:


Well I've never mention your said allegations except whilst they where topical ie being reported in the paper.
So now that that excuse for Piers & his revision of history is out of the way,
What are YOUR thoughts on the issue being discussed?

(East Timor/Raids by spies upon Lawyers & Witnesses)

SHAME LABOR SHAME

I say it again just so the Neo Cons can refer to their history books...John Curtain and World War Two...while they are at it they should look up Robert Menzies and World War Two 

Why Labor cannot be trusted with national security

Did someone forget to tell armpitt that the libs are in government, and therefore they are responsible for natioanl security now??????

When in doubt just re post some of Peirs Akermans meaningless dribble.

Dnarever wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 7:23pm:


Is that obese loathsome pig still alive? I thought he would've died of an STD caught from a 12 yr old boy by now.

Labor is finished, psychologically defunct ... finito

They're proving it themselves now with their crazy proposal to raise the debt ceiling by $400 billion, a number plucked out of the air ... and guess who pays it back ! your children .... any one awake yet ?

St George of the Garden wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:57pm:


Excellent post. You got it.

Read it, leftards.

Vic wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 7:39pm:


So?

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 6:29am:


Relax, the economic vandals were kicked out in September and are now lead by Electricity Bill, the same guy who backs up whatever his leader says even if he doesn't know what it is!

In order to divert attention from current events, Akerman dredges up old history.

Not sure whether he is in Abbott's right pocket or his left, but he's there somewhere.

Peter Freedman wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 7:01am:


What Piers is doing is looking at the form guide. Labor's is dreadful on this subject, and most others. The only things they seem to do well is knifing their leaders, internal warfare and accumulating debt.

buzzanddidj wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 10:00am:


Not content to show us you got nothing, now you're showing us pictures of your disturbing cutlery? I think nut-kat has some competition for loony of the forum!

viewpoint wrote on Dec 7^th, 2013 at 1:03pm:








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Albanese government had decided to dump the ASIO and ASIS chiefs from permanent positions on the National Security Committee while keeping Australia’s most senior climate change bureaucrat at the table.


Mr Shoebridge scolded the decision as going against what the government has been claiming is the most dangerous strategic environment since the Second World War.

“They clearly don’t believe their own words,” Mr Shoebridge said.

“I think it fits with a pattern where the Albanese government has a view of the world as they would like it to be, and they don't like inconvenient truths.

“You would not know that the Chinese state and its military is threatening peace in our region from the happy snaps and handshakes, with this visit over the rest of the week.”

Mr Shoebridge said the decision was a “disturbing downplaying” of the real national security threats and challenges Australia faces.

“So not wanting advice from our intelligence chiefs is an indicator that they don't want to listen to the advice, so don't have them in the room to give it,” he said.

“It's a disturbing, downplaying of real national security challenges and threats and an attempt to just put them in the background and hope they go away.

“You can't stick your fingers in your ears and silence the world. So it shows the government is determined on a policy approach, regardless of what the world actually looks like.”

The senior security analyst said it was “disturbing” there had been no explanation or clarification for the decision as the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet refused to comment on national security matters.

“The disturbing thing is this idea that if we don't hear the analysis, it isn't happening,” Mr Shoebridge said.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/they-dont-like-inconvenient-t...

Albo is fighting Tories, don't you know. Oh, yes. Tsk, tsk 

Frank wrote on Mar 20^th, 2024 at 8:04am:


A Climate Change Bureaucrat on our National Security Committee .... & the unrealistic renewables & net zero emissions zealot Chris Bowen?  We're phukked.

There's a couple of others listed there that would be as useless as a hip pocket on a singlet as well.

WTF is wrong with this Labor Govt?

National security involves a lot more than keeping secrets... it includes retaining the stability and relative open-ness of government and its ways in concerns that are not of high security.....

We have been undergoing a phase in killing of democracy that has involved replacing long-serving people as heads of departments with those of the old school tie, school pinafore, bum-chums,  tongue-chums, drinking mates, and whoever else comes along - such being slotted into massively paid 'contract' positions as department heads etc.

That was a start towards the demolition of democracy here, and allows the increasing use of decree by like-minded politicos and thei equally like-minded bum chums etc, about salient issues such as the theft of public Open Range land and its conversions into private hunting preserves for the New Lairds (but unfortunately not Aborassic Parks) while the New Jews are progressively excluded from portion after portion of life.

When they came for the men uni students as patriarchal oppressors,
You said nothing...
When they came for the hardened unionists and labour actuals,
You said nothing....
When they came for the straight people and called them all gay bashers,
You said nothing...
When they came for the legal gun owners in their own homes and called them wife killers
You said nothing
When they came for the men teachers as rapists and potential paedophiles and patriarchal oppressors,
You said nothing ...
When they came for the White people as racists and Black killers
You said nothing...
When they replaced the long gone White Australia policy with the Black Australia policy
You said nothing...
When they replaced the divisions of power with appointed mates as heads of departments so they could operate in lock-step
You said nothing....
When these groups of 'old school tie' mates began to rule by decree in your own country over the will of the people
You said nothing.......
When they come for you...
There will be nobody left to say anything....

Brian Ross wrote on Mar 20^th, 2024 at 1:30pm:

Your Muslim friend?

Albanese made big promises on national security. Almost everything he promised has come to nothing. One of his commitments was to Australia having a commercial fleet, a merchant navy. In emergencies governments can requisition ships that carry their national flag.

When Labor came to office there were two Australian-flagged international merchant ships. Now, at the end of a full term, there are none. There has of course been a review. There are of course future plans.

But more important than what governments say is what they do, and here we have nothing. There are a few modest vessels that chunter between mainland Australia and Tasmania but none that work internationally. Union power means we’ll never have such a fleet. In the contest of union power versus national security, the Albanese government abandons national security.
...
The government decided to give Palestinians from Gaza wishing to come to Australia visitor visas. It should have announced this, and told the public what it was doing and why. Instead the information had to be dragged out of it piecemeal. When the government was talking to a national security audience the subtext was: we’re doing almost nothing, so there’s nothing to see here.

When it was talking to its own activist base, or Muslim voters in southwest Sydney and elsewhere unhappy that the government has shown even a schmick of sympathy for Israel, its message was: look, we’re rapidly advancing visas categories for Gaza Palestinians, so much more generously than the other guys would.
...
The government made things a million times worse by verballing Burgess in his description of the security checks applied to Palestinians wanting to come to Australia. The government claimed Burgess said ASIO was involved in the processing of every applicant. In fact Burgess had said that if certain triggers were established, then ASIO got involved.

That’s a huge difference. For the Prime Minister to claim otherwise is just absurd.

However, Burgess has also created a very big problem for the government. On the Insiders program, Burgess said some moderate degree of support for the Hamas terror group would not be The government made things a million times worse by verballing Burgess in his description of the security checks applied to Palestinians wanting to come to Australia. The government claimed Burgess said ASIO was involved in the processing of every applicant. In fact Burgess had said that if certain triggers were established, then ASIO got involved.

That’s a huge difference. For the Prime Minister to claim otherwise is just absurd.

However, Burgess has also created a very big problem for the government. On the Insiders program, Burgess said some moderate degree of support for the Hamas terror group would not be an obstacle to someone wanting to come to Australia, so long as that person did not share the Hamas ideology.

In 45 years of professional journalism I can never remember any previous minister or official saying it was OK to support a terrorist group, provided that support was just verbal or some such. Even less is this all right for someone seeking to come to Australia. Is it OK to give verbal support to al-Qa’ida, or Islamic State, or even the Ku Klux Klan?

...

Moral and political leadership is the province of government, and the political process more generally. It’s not the province of security chiefs.

It’s a sign that a government is bankrupt of moral authority when it tries to conscript the apolitical authority of an institution such as ASIO to serve its political cause.

Hamas is not only a terrorist organisation. Its charter contains the most foul and vicious traditional anti-Semitism. The government must clarify what it means to say some degree of support for Hamas is no problem. The opposition would be failing its duty to the nation to leave this matter unresolved.
Greg Sheridan

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 10^th, 2025 at 2:38pm:

How is that relevant (if true) to the quote you picked out? He is talking about Australian Ministers, Australian national security, Australian policy.

Frank wrote on Jan 10^th, 2025 at 10:43am:


You don't remember Trump saying ‘very fine people on both sides’ ?

Frank wrote on Jan 10^th, 2025 at 4:39pm:


Mike Burgess has proven your a dickhead Fwank....No Palastinians are coming to Australia!!!

Quote:




https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/03/australia-gaza-re...

Dnarever wrote on Jan 10^th, 2025 at 7:07pm:

Read the post, fvkcwit.

I know, it's not short, so it's trying for you.
https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1386300896/47#47

What is about you mongs? You can't comprehend anything beyond short, intemperate lefty slogans? You all live in a curtailed, limited echo chamber of fvkcwittery and stunted emotions.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jan 10^th, 2025 at 7:33pm:


How many Muslims do you know, Grappler?  Any at all?  No, I didn't think so.  Yet you decide you can pronounce on their loyalty without talking to any of them?  What a silly bozo you are.  Typical Islamophobic pronouncements.  When you actually talk to some you'll realise they are as loyal as any Australia.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

Frank wrote on Jan 10^th, 2025 at 10:04pm:


You seem to be assuming that Muslims constitute a uniform mass of opinion in most things, Soren.  What a foolish thing to believe.  Typical of an Islamophobe though who has never discussed anything with Muslims, who'd cross a street rather than walk on the same footpath with a Muslim, hey?  When you know some Muslims and you have discussed matters with them, then you can comment.  Like Grappler you are talking out of your arse, Soren.  Grow up.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

Frank wrote on Jan 11^th, 2025 at 12:19pm:


We know Australians because of their massacres, their misogyny, vandalism, rapes, threats of violence, drunkenness, hostility to reason and enlightenment, atheism, antisemitism, Soren, etc.  We should treat all Australians the same, hey?  God, you're a fool, Soren.  A gigantic WOFTAM.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

The Albanese government has emerged as an unmitigated failure, if not outright disaster, in foreign affairs, defence and national security. It’s one of the worst governments we’ve had.

The Australian military is weaker and feebler than when Labor took office. Anthony Albanese and Defence Minister Richard Marles talk big about the future but deliver nothing. Australia’s regional standing has declined sharply. Once we were seen as a powerful country getting stronger; now we’re seen as weak, confused, living off past riches.

Australia has little influence in the Middle East. But the Albanese government, led by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, has failed to identify principles or national interest, so policy is incoherent and ineffective. It has alienated our oldest regional friend, Israel, and joined the opposition to the US at the UN.

The government provides no rationale or narrative for its disconnected actions. Everything is spin, frequently designed to appease Greens voters and the Labor Left. As a result of the government’s moral confusion and lack of political leadership, Australia is gripped by an anti-Semitism crisis the likes of which we’ve never seen before. The government is not remotely anti-Semitic. Its failure in leadership has allowed anti-Semitism to flourish.

For the first time since the Vietnam War, foreign policy is bitterly dividing the community, this time along sectarian, religious and ethnic lines.
...

The Albanese government is not the worst since World War II. You can’t take the title from the Whitlam government. It nearly destroyed the US alliance. The US, Britain and Canada all cut off intelligence sharing with Australia for a time under Gough Whitlam. Whitlam had a shocking and ugly prejudice against Vietnamese refugees, famously telling his cabinet ministers: “I’m not having those f..king Vietnamese Balts coming into this country with their religious and political prejudices against us.” Whitlam, for no benefit, extended de jure recognition of Soviet sovereignty over the Baltic states. Whitlam was regarded as a fool regionally. Lee Kuan Yew is devastating in his treatment of Whitlam in his memoirs, describing him as an arrogant sham. And Whitlam ended his time in office by commissioning Bill Hartley to seek secret electoral funding for the ALP from Saddam Hussein’s Baath Socialist Party in Iraq.

Albanese is not as bad as that. Lest you feel these harsh judgments of mine are excessive, consider the following testimonials. Bilahari Kausikan, former head of the Singapore Foreign Ministry, wrote in Foreign Affairs recently: “Today, the three most important US allies (in Asia) – Australia, Japan and South Korea – all have weak leaders.”

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/albanese-government-is-one-of-the-wo...

A Sydney home targeted in another anti-Semitic attack overnight recently belonged to high-profile Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin as cars were torched, vandalised with “f..k Jews” graffiti, and that property doused with red paint in another sharp escalation of the crisis engulfing the country.

Vision of flames billowing from two cars destroyed in the attack in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has also emerged, with the property doused in red paint recently belonging to Mr Ryvchin, who is co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry and one of the community’s most prominent leaders.

The incident likely adds more pressure on Anthony Albanese to convene a national cabinet to tackle the escalating crisis, something he has so far ruled out, despite an urgent call from his hand-picked envoy to combat anti-Semitism to do so.

It’s unclear if – and not suggested that – the perpetrators targeted the home knowing it used to belong to Mr Ryvchin, who has been lauded across the last 15 months for his community leadership against anti-Semitism and support for Israel.

Police and emergency services were called to Military Rd in Dover Heights about 4am following reports “a number of vehicles were sprayed with graffiti, two vehicles were set alight, and a house was splashed with paint”.

One of the cars destroyed by fire, a Mercedes, has “f..k Jews” sprayed on the side and a Honda has “f..k Israel” vandalised on its rear windscreen and trunk. Both vehicles have been towed as police continued to investigate the scene and source CCTV of the perpetrators.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/multiple-cars-firebombed-and-graffitied-...


Violent antisemitism increases in direct correlation with increased Islamic immigration.
In Australia, Europe,  UK, Canada.

Thats funny, I've never once seen frank cry when a mosque is targetted with graffiti  ... but target a car belonging to a jew and frank screams like a little bitch

A western Sydney woman accused of being part of an anti-Semitic attack in Sydney’s eastern suburbs where three buildings were graffitied and a stolen car was set alight allegedly posted on social media seeking jerry cans prior to the attack.

Tammie Farrugia, 34, had her Liverpool home raided by police on Monday morning for her alleged involvement in the December 11 attack in which a the words “kill Israiel” (sic) and “death 2 Israiel” (sic) were scrawled across multiple buildings.

Social media posts made on December 10 – the day before the attack – by the mother of five will be relied upon in court, where she allegedly asked if anyone had jerry cans she could use.

“Anyone got any plastic Jerry cans plz let me know thanks in advance,” she allegedly posted in a local Facebook group.


According to a social media profile in her name, Ms Farrugia wrote that she had been “raided” on Christmas Eve and her partner had been “locked up” and that “our phones got seized”.

Exclusive CCTV footage obtained by The Australian on the day of the attack showed a dramatic explosion on a backstreet of the prominent Jewish suburb, before a grainy figure runs away from the blaze. It was the second attack within a month in the area.

In late November, two men were arrested and charged following another attack in Woollahra, in which “f..k Israel” was smeared across nine cars, as well as apartment buildings and Matt Moran’s Chiswick restaurant.


Farrugia = cock in Maltese, apparently. Apt.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2025 at 7:45am:


"Wariness" amounts to, "included arson, physical assault, graffiti, vandalism, verbal abuse and online abuse and hate mail, including death threats."  As much as you dress it up, Grappler it amounts to a serious concern for Muslims who have done nothing to earn this hatred.  Tsk, tsk, tsk... 

John Smith wrote on Jan 17^th, 2025 at 3:53pm:




After nearly 16 months of this nonsense I harbour no illusions that Albanese will, or even can, grasp the nettle. He has not done so up to now. He won’t in coming months.

“No ongoing threat to the community”? What absolute unremitting nonsense. We are a coin toss away from a mass casualty attack. People are planning it. They are itching to do it. It will finish off Albanese’s leadership as sure as it will harm the innocents among us.
Peter Jennings

Whichever way you post it - it's the same...

Why - Labor cannot be trusted with national security.  (foreskin conclusion)

WHY Labor cannot be trusted with national security.

Anthony Albanese has been accused of misleading the public by arguing a Chinese naval task group gave “notice” of a live fire drill off Australia’s east coast when it provided no advance warning of the exercise.

Defence officials confirmed in Senate estimates that the department learned of a live fire drill by the People’s Liberation Army-Navy ships on Friday after a Virgin pilot relayed a warning broadcast it received in mid-air about 9.58am.

The notification alerted aircraft to an exercise window of 9.30am to 3pm.

A New Zealand frigate also heard and passed on the radio warning through defence channels, but its notification didn’t come through to Defence until 11.01am, Senate estimates heard.

Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said this conflicted with public comments by the Prime Minister, who said on Friday that “notice was given”, and on Saturday that “notification did occur of this event”.

On Wednesday, the Prime Minister also suggested the warning from the New Zealand ship was received “at around the same time” as the one from the Virgin pilot, when it was received an hour later.

Senator Paterson said: “It’s remarkable that Australia was relying on civilian aircraft for early warning about military exercises by a formidable foreign task group in our region.

Meanwhile on Chinese TV

State TV in China is now showing millions of viewers how Chinese Warships have successfully circled Australia.

White= Hengyang ship
Red= Zunyi ship +903A Weishanhu ship
Yellow= Zunyi Ship Formation

Frank wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2025 at 9:09am:



pull your petticoat up and stop the hysterics you fool. 

John Smith wrote on Mar 5^th, 2025 at 10:23am:



Wake up, mindless buffoon.

I was quoting Peter Jennings. Who he?

Peter Jennings was the executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) from May 2012 to May 2022. And....

John Smith wrote on Mar 5^th, 2025 at 1:26pm:





"Albo has nuffin' to do with nuffin'."

Thicko as mince-o is reasoning, don't you know.

Oh, yes.



Go on, give us another one. 

Labor can't be trusted with anything - Aboriginal affairs, equality, wage gaps nonsense*, security, social security, the economy, immigration - you name it...


*Riddle me this - how is it that despite years of pushing and shoving to give women more money per hour worked - a real gap currently standing at nearly +10% per hour worked over men - the 'wage gap' remains at '78%'??  How is that possible?  Trumpet all you like about 'women-dominated work areas' getting more pay - such as the aged care NURSING sector (wait a minute - what about the common workers there? ... those MEN and women?) ... that is a SECTOR wage rise - not a 'gender wage rise', and it's utter nonsense when the reality is that most people are doing it hard and there is ZERO gap in wages - but only in 'EARNINGS' - you understand the difference?  Currently women are paid more but still don't EARN as much by WORKING for it because they don't work the hours and often conditions - therefore they are actually working fewer hours but still being paid more for doing less.  MEN lag significantly in any 'woman-dominated work area' due to active discrimination, preference and so forth - and women don't do or want to do the hard yakka jobs anyway.

Labor just wants to give them another free ride.