August
Rare recruitment guide reveals what it takes to be a spy (sort of)
Australia’s most secretive spy agency puts the emphasis on HR speak rather than the glamour of spying as it tries to recruit staff.
- Andrew Tillett
December 2023
Spy boss warns of intelligence failure without faster tech adoption
The director-general of the Office of National Intelligence says policymakers need to ensure technology is adopted faster or risk an intelligence failure.
- Matthew Cranston
May 2023
- Opinion
- Defence spending
Time to tap the huge investment opportunity of defence private sector
The public and the corporate world now see investment in a secure country as a social good.
- Peter Dean and Hayley Channer
December 2022
First female chief for Australia’s foreign spy agency
Kerri Hartland had mostly recently been overseeing reforms to Parliament’s workplace culture. Now she is being thrust into the world of geopolitics.
- Andrew Tillett
November 2022
- Explainer
- Jobs
Top spy agency is hiring 1900 workers. Here’s what it takes
The Australian Signals Directorate is on the hunt for 1900 recruits, with some of those positions reserved for cyber spies. Here’s what they actually do.
- Updated
- Campbell Kwan
July 2022
Dreyfus orders Bernard Collaery case dropped
He was scheduled to face trial later this year over the leaking of classified information about Australia’s efforts to spy on the government of East Timor.
- Tom McIlroy and Michael Pelly
May 2022
Top spook Andrew Shearer spied at Scotch
After Tokyo, the Office of National Intelligence head has plenty of time to make another commitment. This one at his old alma mater.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- National security
How do we keep an eye on our spies?
Our intelligence services have never been more important to us, and democratic governance is part of their strength. But do we need to look at this again?
- Ben Scott
March 2022
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
Isolated Putin a ‘lonely, vulnerable man’, says Australian spymaster
As Russian forces escalate the war by shelling near a nuclear power plant, Australia’s overseas spymaster says the future “does not augur well” for Vladimir Putin.
- Andrew Tillett