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The Commissioner, Corrective Services Peter Severin pictured at the 2019 Budget Estimates held at NSW Parliament in Sydney. Picture: Richard Dobson

Police, prisons prepared for worst

Law enforcement agencies around the country are bracing for the impact of coronavirus.

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Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Reece Kershaw appears before a Senate Estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, March 2, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Cops try to block release of terrorists

The AFP will apply to have up to seven convicted terrorists due for release kept in jail.

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27/02/2020: Ray Fulcher served with the Australian Army's Rifle Company Butterworth, in Malaysia during the Malaya Conflict, in the 1970's. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Malaya vets campaign on ‘war service’

The men of Rifle Company Butterworth are fighting to have their deployment and its risks recognised as a warlike service.

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Australian women and children at the Al-Hawl camp in northeast Syria. Picture: Supplied

Aussie ISIS brides face arrest

The AFP has issued the first arrest warrants for Australian women suspected of fighting with Islamic State.

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Some terrorists unfit for release: judge

The judge who presided over Australia’s largest terrorism trial has thrown his weight behind continuing detention orders.

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Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 59, left, Bilal Khazal, 50 and Shayden Thorne, 32.

Cops’ legal battle to keep terrorists locked up

Police to use new powers as they brace for the release of a record number of convicted terrorists.

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ONE USE ONLY FOR AUSTRALIAN INQUIRER Photo of a kangaroo as it passes by a burning house in the town of Conjola NSW. Photo Matthew Abbott

In the line of fire

When the smoke has literally and figuratively cleared, Australia must reckon with what the experts assure us is a new reality: longer fire seasons and hotter, drier climates.

Paul Maley and James Madden

NSW ALP MP for Blue Mountains Phil Koperberg makes his way to a caucus meeting at State Parliament in Sydney after the resignation of Health Minister John Della Bosca over a sex scandal.

Biggest need is ‘boots on the ground’

Former NSW RFS commissioner Phil Koperberg said the emphasis must be on mitigating fire hazards through land management and prescribed burning.

9/11/2001. Asylum-seeking refugees on two boats anchored in Australian waters off Ashmore Reef. Boat people. Refugees.

Boats appear on horizon Boats a defining issue

Cabinet minute dated 16 November 1999 noted the “increase in people arriving illegally in Australia’’.

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Blue eye on multiscreen monitor. Spy . Surveillance, Computer Monitor, Eye, Watching, Television Set, Television Industry, Computer, Digital Display, Digitally Generated Image, Looking, People,Communication, Photo : istock

Rise of internet challenge for spies

The spread of a strange new technology — the internet — led to ASIO being given authority to remotely hack into computers.

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