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Australia’s former national security watchdog accuses successor of bowing to pressure from attorney general

Grant Donaldson faults Independent Security Legislation Monitor Jake Blight for ‘clarification’ to old annual report which criticised Mark Dreyfus

The Guardian - AU

Barbs traded over push to lock up released detainees

Labor and the coalition are teaming up to expand a preventative detention model that applies to terrorists to apply to recently released immigration detainees.

AAP

Report urges open justice in national security cases

A new report by an independent monitor says laws to protect national security should not come at the expense of a defendant's right to a fair hearing.

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Home affairs tried to water down report critical of ‘extraordinary’ counter-terror powers, documents reveal

Department engaged researchers to review its preventative detention of terrorists, only to attempt to remove their most serious criticisms

The Guardian - AU

Bernard Collaery’s lawyers argue secret ‘court-only’ evidence should be banned in national security cases

In evidence to the national security law watchdog, the legal team said the NSI Act had fundamental issues and needed reforming

The Guardian - AU

Foreign spies using sensitive court proceedings to collect information, Australia’s intelligence community says

Director general of national intelligence says NSI Act needs to be modernised but defended tough secrecy laws amid ‘unprecedented’ levels of espionage

The Guardian - AU

Consultancy firms’ tactics under scrutiny – as it happened

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Courts are vulnerable to foreign spies, inquiry told

Office of National Intelligence Director-General Andrew Shearer says court cases present an opportunity for information to fall into the hands of spies.

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Department of Home Affairs defends use of terrorist assessment tool

The use of two risk assessment tools for convicted terrorists has been supported by the home affairs department.

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Secret report condemns orders keeping convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika in prison

A convicted terrorist is being kept in prison using orders that have been condemned in a Home Affairs inquiry. The department kept that report's findings secret — until now.

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Veil to finally be lifted on years of secrecy in Witness J case

The former intelligence officer was jailed behind closed doors.

The Canberra Times

Coalition warned of problems with tool to predict future terrorist crime but continued to use it on offenders

Exclusive: Morrison government used risk assessment tool known as VERA-2R on 14 occasions after receiving independent report

The Guardian - AU

Judge weighs release of former spy's jailing details

The reason why a former spy was secretly convicted and sentenced could be revealed as the attorney-general and the defence fight over what should remain hidden.

AAP

Law council joins calls to abolish Australia’s powers to detain terrorist offenders to prevent future crimes

Peak legal body endorses findings by independent monitor that recommends scrapping continuing detention orders

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National security watchdog calls for controversial terror laws to be dumped in scathing review

The national security watchdog argues laws that allow convicted terrorists to be held in prison after their sentence is over should be dumped.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s powers to detain ‘terrorist offenders’ to prevent future crime must be abolished, watchdog says

Preventive detention regime is disproportionate to the threat of terrorism and makes us a ‘harsher society’, report says

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Home Affairs keeps sensitive report on terrorist assessments hidden from public view

A report criticising how control orders are administered for terrorists once they leave prison is being kept hidden by the Department of Home Affairs for "operational security reasons".

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COP that, Australia

Australia has won bronze in a race to the bottom of countries who haven’t kept their funding promises to poorer, climate-vulnerable countries, and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is taking a long, hard look at bullying and harassment allegations made against AAT members.

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'Never again' for secret spy prosecution

The attorney-general launched a review into Australia's national security laws following an inquiry into the secret conviction and sentencing of a former spy.

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‘Never again’ for secret spy prosecution

The attorney-general launched a review into Australia’s national security laws following an inquiry into the secret conviction and sentencing of a former spy.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s powers to detain terrorist offenders after jail term without rehabilitation under review

Law has important consequences and ‘sits oddly’ with aims of sentencing, which include rehabilitation and reintegration, national security watchdog says

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