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INFORMATION, ANALYSIS AND ADVICE FOR THE PARLIAMENT I N F O R M A T I O N A N D R E S E A R C H S E R V I C E S Bills Digest No. 60 2003-04 Criminal Code Amendment (Hamas and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba) Bill 2003

Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services BACKGROUND NOTE 22 April 2013 The house that ASIO built—a short history of the new Central Office of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Nigel Brew Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1 Background .............................................................................................................................................. 2 Construction timeline .............................................................................................................................. 6 Building

Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services BACKGROUND NOTE 24 October 2012 Telecommunications data retention—an overview Nigel Brew Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1 What is communications data? ............................................................................................................... 2 Data use and retention ............................................................................................................................ 7 Use by law enforcement ................................................................................................................ 8 What is the problem?

Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Coastal surveillance and interception ................................................................................................. 1 Customs ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Defence ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Detention and processing ................................................................................................................... 6 Offshore asylum seeker management............................................................................................ 6 Onshore detention ........................................................................................................................ 9 Capital expenditure on detention centres ...................................................................................... 9 Security assessments ................................................................................................................... 10 Other costs ..................................................................................................................................

  MARCH 24, 2011 Libya and the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973 The wave of protests sweeping across the Middle East in recent months has seen demands for democratic reforms and regime change in several countries, including Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain. However, Libya quickly became the focus

Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services www.aph.gov.au/library Parliamentary Library RESEARCH BRIEF Information, analysis and advice for the Parliament 16 November 2004, no. 3, 2004-05, ISSN 1832-2883 (revised 9 August 2005) Critical, but stable Views on Australia’s capacity to respond to a major infectious disease outbreak The existence of new

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2003-04 No. 23, 1 December 2003 The New National Threat Assessment Centre Background The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has been the agency responsible for producing threat assessments in relation to terrorism and politically motivated violence (PMV) since Justice Hope's 1979 Protective Security Review report. Threat assessments are essentially assessments