Guarding Australia in an alphabet soup of spy organisations, Australia needs a new National Security Adviser to balance competing advice with clear strategy.
National security, intelligence and espionage have been in the headlines due to events abroad and significant developments at home. So how is intelligence gathered? What are Australia’s peak national security bodies and how do they interact?
The cloak-and-dagger exploits of characters like James Bond and Jason Bourne have shaped our cultural idea of spy work. But these films, made mostly in the US and UK, have little to do with the reality of Australian intelligence.
