May 2022
If only Nick Warner was still spy chief
There is no self-deception like that which keenly inflicts the man abruptly deprived of relevance.
- Joe Aston
June 2021
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- National security
Kabul spy station exit an ‘admission of defeat’
The likely closure of the ASIS station in Kabul could create a perception Australia only participated in the 20-year Afghan war to please the US government.
- Aaron Patrick
February 2021
Fortescue recruits Turnbull, spymaster to its green energy ranks
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group has hired the former prime minister and an ex-intelligence chief a week after committing 10 per cent of profits to renewable energy projects.
- Brad Thompson
October 2020
Andrew Shearer to be new top spook
The senior government adviser, who is a noted China hawk, will take up his role at the Office of National Intelligence in December.
- Andrew Tillett and Phillip Coorey
September 2020
Penny Williams replaces Gary Quinlan in Jakarta
The Morrison government will shortly appoint Penny Williams as Australia’s Ambassador to Indonesia.
- Joe Aston
December 2019
Labor opposes Andrew Shearer as top spook
Federal Labor has sent the government a warning that it would not support Andrew Shearer replacing Nick Warner as the head of the Office of National Intelligence.
- Phillip Coorey
October 2019
Australia's 10 most covertly powerful people
Meet the big players who manipulate the levers of influence from behind the scenes.
- Tom McIlroy