OP ED: A Fair Go For All

Australians have long prided themselves on a ‘fair go for all’. In practice, that means ensuring the same rules apply to everyone – no matter your wealth, fame or where you are from. This fundamental fairness is what underpins our democracy – and it’s absolutely crucial when it comes to managing Australia’s international border. Commonwealth…

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Keeping Australians safe 20 years on from 9/11

Twenty years ago, President Bush addressed a nation struggling to make sense of a terrorist attack that had claimed almost 3000 innocent lives. He finished by saying: “None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.” Twenty years on,…

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LET’S TALK ABOUT THE RISK OF ONLINE PREDATORS

You probably didn’t hear about it, but last week the Morrison Government passed legislation to give police and intelligence agencies more powers to tackle serious criminal activity taking place online, including child sexual exploitation. We’re making it harder for criminals and paedophiles to hide behind anonymising technology on the dark web. It didn’t make the…

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