The University of Canberra’s Michelle Grattan and Frances Shannon discuss the week in politics.
Articles on National security
Displaying 261 - 280 of 482 articles
The creeping invisibility of the immigration portfolio comes as the government is overseeing major changes to immigration policy.
Politics Podcast: Peter Jennings on the home affairs department
Peter Jennings says while the Department of Home Affairs will present an array of bureaucratic challenges, it is largely a 'sensible step'.
The move to consolidate security agencies under one minister upends generations of conventions on how security intelligence and executive police powers are managed separately.
Turnbull is understandably sensitive to suggestions that the planned home affairs ministry is all about Dutton, whose continued support is so vital to him.
The effectiveness of the changes to the ADF’s role in counter-terrorism operations will depend heavily on the willingness of state police to accept military advice and assistance.
Peter Dutton will take charge of a new mega home affairs portfolio in a sweeping overhaul of national security agencies and responsibilities.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has just announced the creation of a new “super-ministry”, modelled on the UK Home Office. By the end of 2018, Australia will have a new Department of Home Affairs. This…
While in London this week, Turnbull has the chance to hear about the operation of the British home office. The UK model would be more relevant than the US version if Australia went down this route.
David Petraeus argued there’s more continuity than change in Donald Trump’s foreign policy.
While Malcolm Turnbull celebrates the parliament passing the school funding package, the government is still trying to deal with an energy crisis.
Proposed new laws will restrict parole and bail to those merely associated in some way with terrorism, even when they have not be arrested for – or convicted of – a specific terrorism offence.
The government has finally found an issue it can cast in terms of “national security” on which it can get a fight with Labor. Bill Shorten usually sticks leech-like to bipartisanship on anything with even…
A new bill gives the immigration minister a range of new powers that relate to various aspects of the citizenship acquisition process.
Australia’s data retention law is one of the most comprehensive and intrusive data collection schemes in the Western world, and should be challenged.
It is obviously important to protect the institutional integrity and independence of the judiciary – but the judiciary and judicial decisions should not be immune from criticism.
The Australian government wants to access encrypted messages, but don’t call it a “backdoor”.
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
In a security update on the threats facing Australia at home and abroad, Malcolm Turnbull will say that an ‘online civil society is as achievable as an offline one’.
The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University
-
Senior Research Associate, Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
-
Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
-
Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, The Philippines Institute, Australian National University
-
Assistant Professor in Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University
-
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
-
Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
-
Associate Professor, Law School, The University of Western Australia
-
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Notre Dame Australia
-
Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Associate Director, UMBC Cybersecurity Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
-
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
-
Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
-
Research Fellow, Griffith University
-
Professor of the Practice of Political Science and International Relations, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences