Australia's internal spy agency ASIO vetted potential communist sympathisers at the ABC and even tapped journalists' phones during the 1960s and 70s, newly declassified files reveal. In the 1960s anti ...

Victoria Police have discovered what appears to be a major security breach involving files from ASIO, West Australian Police and Victoria's Office of Police Integrity (OPI). Police say the documents ...

Wire taps and surveillance were everyday facts of life for Sam Goldbloom and his family. Now, his daughter reimagines that period of their lives in a major survey exhibition From an early age, Ruth ...

Dozens of Territory citizens including current federal MP Warren Snowdon, former NT News editor Jim Bowditch, pearling magnate Nick Paspaley Sr and activist Rob Wesley-Smith were the subjects of ASIO ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Conspiracy theories surrounding the alleged CIA involvement in the overthrow of the Whitlam Government are dismissed in an official ...

The only thing worse, notes Meredith Burgmann in Dirty Secrets, than discovering that your personal file held by Australia’s domestic political police, ASIO, is disappointingly thin is to find out ...

Hundreds of ASIO files are now available to any web surfer. Under the ’30 year rule’ the files are becoming public. They are a fascinating read. We spied on many, including Australian politician Dr ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FOR years he thought he was just being paranoid. Now he knows the truth. A few months ago, after a freedom-of-information request, ...

The plot to murder a federal minister at a Sydney television studio is one of the nation's great untold stories. It went like this. In 1974, the TV chat show Frost Over Australia invited Aboriginal ...

Several months after senator Gietzelt became a minister, an ASIO agent reported in a "secret" note a conversation between Communist Party leaders Laurie Aarons and Joe Palmada that revealed senator ...