Security Intelligence

For now, Australians seeking to understand any intelligence gaps, failures, missed warnings and government failings before the Bondi massacre are expected to accept a keyhole view.

The head of a major UK intelligence agency is warning that Moscow and other adversaries could use artificial intelligence and other emerging technology to conduct "hybrid warfare" against Western allies.

The head of Australia's domestic intelligence agency reveals it reviewed past terrorism investigations in 2024 which did not extend to a re-examination of the soon to be Bondi gunmen because of a resourcing decision.

Australia's intelligence agency, ASIO, issued its annual holiday threat assessment less than two weeks before the Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach but did not identify heightened risks to the Jewish festival, despite earlier declaring antisemitism as its top priority in terms of threat to life.

Australia's intelligence agencies had cut counterterrorism funding to its lowest share this century before the Bondi massacre, despite warnings that a terrorist attack was probable and that antisemitic violence posed an escalating threat to life.

Australian citizens Kira and Igor Korolev were charged in 2024, accused of attempting to gather and send state secrets to Russia.

The political energy spent on the "ISIS brides" has not been matched by serious attention to the deficiencies in Australia's counterterrorism architecture.

Two British Chinese nationals have been found guilty of spying for China, using UK police systems to gather information.

Royal commissioner Virginia Bell says classified documents reveal a significant shift in intelligence spending away from counterterrorism since 2020, in the first findings of what failings led to last year's Bondi terror attack.

While advising the royal commission examining the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, the former head of Australia's domestic intelligence agency questioned whether early assessments of gunman Naveed Akram were sufficiently rigorous.

A shooting incident at a Washington dinner attended by Donald Trump has prompted a swirl of questions about how an alleged shooter breached Secret Service security and got so close to the US president.

The former head of the Foreign Office said there was "a very, very strong expectation" that Peter Mandelson "needed to be in post and in America as quickly as possible".

A large torpedo-shaped device discovered near an island in a strategically important strait between Bali and Lombok has been identified by defence analysts as a Chinese undersea monitoring system.

Peter Mandelson was sacked from the role after revelations about his connections with the late sex offender became public.

The UK issues a warning to Moscow after revealing its military has tracked Russian submarines operating in the North Sea.

Chinese satellite images enhanced by artificial intelligence could help Iran target US and allied forces to within a third of a square metre, military analysts say.

A Chinese company's publication of AI-enhanced satellite imagery of US bases in the Middle East is helping Iranian forces identify targets, US intelligence believes.

Ronald Sackville who led the disability royal commission says it is unlikely the the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion can properly examine the experiences of Jewish Australians before its December 2026 deadline.

Residents with family in the Middle East are grappling with the part the highly secretive Pine Gap base may be playing in the Iran war from their own backyard. 

Perhaps the prime minister was hoping US President Donald Trump was tuning in to Triple M when he claimed that the attack on Iran had now achieved its aims, and offered an off-ramp for the war to end.