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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TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW – 4BC – BREAKFAST WITH NEIL BREEN

Topics: Quarantine for ADF members returning from overseas; 20th anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attack; Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation; National Women’s Summit. NEIL BREEN: Home Affairs Minister, MP for McPherson, Cabinet Minister Karen Andrews. She’s on the line. How are you, Minister? KAREN ANDREWS: I’m well, Neil. How are you? NEIL BREEN: I’m well,…

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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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TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW – 4BC – DRIVE WITH SCOTT EMERSON

Topics: Terrorist incident in New Zealand. SCOTT EMERSON: Following on from that attack in New Zealand this afternoon, where we saw people stabbed – three are in critical condition – in what Jacinda Ardern has confirmed was a terrorist attack at a supermarket in Auckland – we’re now with Home Affairs Minister, Karen Andrews. Minister,…

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TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW – 4BC – BREAKFAST WITH NEIL BREEN

Topics: Queensland border restrictions; anti-child sexual exploration campaign ‘trace an object’; new COVID-19 vaccine doses from Singapore; vaccine rollout; importance of the National Plan. NEIL BREEN: Good morning to you, Minister. KAREN ANDREWS: Good morning, Neil. How are you? NEIL BREEN: I’m well, thanks. Now, you’ve been in Canberra – I just wanted to address…

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TRANSCRIPT Press Conference – PARLIAMENT HOUSE

Topics: Evacuation of Australians, permanent residents, and Australian visa holders from Kabul International Airport; settlement of evacuees in Australia KAREN ANDREWS: While our operations in Kabul have ceased, we have now had 1,035 people arrive in Australia from the Middle East. Our work regarding Afghanistan is not complete, we are continuing to support those people…

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PASSAGE OF THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2021

The Parliament has today passed legislation that will ensure our national security agencies continue to have the powers they need to combat current and emerging threats to national security. The Comprehensive Review of the Legal Framework of the National Intelligence Community (the Richardson Review) made clear that the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (TIA…

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