Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

ASIO's main role is to gather information and produce intelligence that will enable it to warn the government about immigrants, gays and environmentalists.

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Australia’s Horrific Human Rights Abuse

There is so much I could write about this, so many cases I could link to. If you’re not aware, Australia has been imprisoning asylum seekers indefinitely, both in our country and on Nauru and Manus Island. The conditions are terrible: the detention centres are filthy, unhygienic and the people kept there fail to have their basic physical and emotional needs met (1). Sexual assault, abuse, self-harm and suicide attempts are rampant ( 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7). None of the men, women and children on Nauru and Manus have any hope of being resettled in Australia, whether or not they’re found to be genuine refugees. The situation is so hopeless that one man chose to return to his home in Damascus, one of Syria’s most dangerous and war torn areas. Since his return, he has been jailed and tortured by government intelligence officers for 20 days, and caught in a shelling that hit his village. Though injured, he survived but his father was killed by shrapnel.  Despite this, he is adamant that he would rather be in Syria, with his family, than locked up in a “prison on Manus Island” (6) . 

Remember that these people have committed no crime. 

One of the latest cases of abuse is Abyan (not her real name), a Somali refugee who was raped on Nauru several months ago and fell pregnant as a result. Since then, she has desperately sought help, only to be denied at every turn. She wants counselling. She wants medical aid. She wants an abortion. All things that she not only deserves but has a right to as a human being. 

Our government doesn’t care. 

Abortion is illegal on Nauru so Abyan has to be flown to Australia (or another country) in order to receive one. Advocates fought on her behalf for her to receive this treatment and only after a petition was started and the public grew more and more outraged did the government relent. This woman begged for their help and still for the longest time they did nothing. By the time she arrived, Abyan’s health had deteriorated and she was admitted to hospital for dehydration.

This is where the government had the chance to step in and finally do the right thing. Not only the right thing but what they were obligated to do from the start. But instead they chose to subject Abyan to further torment. 

Still recovering physically, Abyan requested to speak to a councillor or doctor first before having her abortion (she wished to talk to someone about what she had been though and what the procedure entailed in order to make an informed decision). She told officials she would decide when to have the abortion in a day or so.

Apparently, this wasn’t quick enough for them.

Only five days after her arrival, Abyan was secretly flown out of the country - denying her lawyer’s requests to speak to her first - on a special jet to the Solomon Islands. From there, she was returned to Nauru. 

In an attempt to excuse this callous treatment, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton issued a statement declaring that she had decided not to go through with the termination. If this is true, why could she not see her lawyer? Why could she not speak to a councillor or doctor? Why was she so hastily flown out of the country - and on a jet because there were no commercial flights available at the time - when they waited so so long to fly her here in the first place?

The abuse didn’t stop there, though. 

In order for journalists to go to Nauru they need to purchase an $8000 visa and even then, Nauru has the right to deny them entry (the $8000 is not refunded). No journalists have been allowed into Nauru for the past 18 months. Several have tried and failed.

Enter Chris Kenny, a journalist who also just happens to be Malcolm Turnbull’s, the Prime Minister’s, former chief of staff.  This week, Kenny was granted access to Nauru and from there proceeded to Abyan’s house. With police in tow, he forced his way inside - despite her repeatedly crying for him to leave - in order to conduct an ‘interview’.  He terrorised her in her own home,  a place she should have been allowed to feel safe.  He determined that she never reported the rape - understandable since the police on Nauru have shown nothing but negligence and even cruelty in the cases of asylum seekers who have reported rape (7, 8) - and that her rape case has now been closed by police - a case which, as he pointed out, was never opened in the first place.       

These people have done nothing to us. And yet we treat them worse than criminals.

I cannot imagine what this woman must be going through. I can only apologise for what my country and government has subjected her to and implore you all to share this. The world needs to know what Australia has done, what it is doing. It cannot be allowed to continue. Our government needs to be held accountable for its actions. 

Please share this

Abyan: Raped by the Australian Government

Injustice and refugee porn: Australia sends Chris Kenny to torture Abyan

Abyan’s Plight Is Not A Travesty Of Justice, It’s A Deliberate Denial Of It - New Matilda

Refugee rape victim says Immigration Minister Peter Dutton is telling lies about abortion

Why do women in detention choose not to report rape?

Petition for Abyan

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This is so vile and inhumane

[official-asio]

But necessary to keep us safe!

[matthewaid]

ASIO’s Headquarters in Canberra Is Getting Dozens of Noise Complaints From Local Residents

October 22, 2015

Aren’t spies supposed to AVOID attracting attention? ASIO’s new headquarters gets multiple noise complaints from nearby residents

John Carney

Daily Mail Australia

October 21, 2015

Keeping it all hush hush maybe what the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is about but the racket coming from its premises at the Ben Chifley building in Canberra is keeping the neighbourhood awake at night.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that security and intelligence authorities were called in as the giant building’s alarms continually rang out during the night to the huge annoyance of those living in the neighbourhood.

Complaints rained in from neighbouring Campbell, which is popular with families from Canberra’s military and intelligence communities, as they consistently could not get a proper night’s sleep because of all the commotion.

The ASIO’s Ben Chifley building (pictured) has alarms that continually ring out during the night

But it is not a recent problem and Fairfax Media revealed as early as 2014 that Campbell residents were complaining about being woken up by the building’s alarms then.

‘I have found it hard to find someone who actually cares about the problem as there doesn’t appear to be anyone in the actual building when I have gone down there when the alarms are going off,’ one neighbour told Fairfax.

'This problem has gone on for the last year and must not be allowed to continue.’  

In recent years the Ben Chifley building (pictured) has been blighted with problems

ASIO was established in 1949 as Australia’s national security intelligence service and the Ben Chifley building has been blighted with problems.

They include building contractors working on site going under financially, allegations Chinese hackers stole the building’s blueprints and when more than 20 windows worth up to $3500 each shattered.

It is described on the ASIO website as 'a special purpose, high-security building, designed with the capacity and flexibility to meet national security needs now and in the future’.  

Neighbouring Campbell residents are getting woken up all the time by the alarms (stock picture)

Located at 70 Constitution Avenue, Parkes ACT, the building offers 45,000m2 of net lettable area, can accommodate up to 1,800 people and operates 24 hours per day.

The building was described on the ASIO website as being 'a particularly complex and challenging project given its specific purpose and high-security requirements’.

On August 7, 2014, ASIO finally took possession of the building following the main construction and testing phase.

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If the terrorists can't sleep, they can't plot!

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A woman who is under our government’s protection as a refugee was denied the medical care she was promised. The woman was raped on Nauru and fell pregnant, but abortions are illegal in Nauru. After much public outcry, the woman was flown into Australia to get an abortion. But two days ago, she was taken back to the place she was raped in secret, and we were lied to when we were told it was her choice and that she had opted not to have the procedure.

In a statement from the woman, she said she was never taken to see a doctor. She was never allowed to see her lawyer. She was never provided with an interpreter, or councillor, despite the Australian Government claiming otherwise.

The Immigration Department has been secretive and dishonest about helping vulnerable people that are under our protection. This continued abuse of human rights must not be allowed to continue, we have to condemn it. 

This is not who we want to be. We have to do better. 

Please Sign the petition to bring her back to Australia.

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We’re going to need a minute to work out how to justify this one

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Oh right, she's a security threat. Obvs.

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A woman who is under our government’s protection as a refugee was denied the medical care she was promised. The woman was raped on Nauru and fell pregnant, but abortions are illegal in Nauru. After much public outcry, the woman was flown into Australia to get an abortion. But two days ago, she was taken back to the place she was raped in secret, and we were lied to when we were told it was her choice and that she had opted not to have the procedure.

In a statement from the woman, she said she was never taken to see a doctor. She was never allowed to see her lawyer. She was never provided with an interpreter, or councillor, despite the Australian Government claiming otherwise.

The Immigration Department has been secretive and dishonest about helping vulnerable people that are under our protection. This continued abuse of human rights must not be allowed to continue, we have to condemn it. 

This is not who we want to be. We have to do better. 

Please Sign the petition to bring her back to Australia.

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We're going to need a minute to work out how to justify this one

[boudiccababy]

hey can we get a quick boost for aussie bloggers?

as of the 13th october 2015 data retention laws will come into effect essentially legalising ubiquitous mass surveillance of the australian population. ideally if you aren’t doing anything illegal this shouldn’t be a problem. HOWEVER:

we don’t know if an insurance company will be able to access data in the future, and affect premiums

we don’t know if a future conservative government will implement a citizen score system

we don’t know if browsing habits will get us on a watchlist somewhere

we don’t know who will be able to access metadata in future, because targeted hacks and the resale of stolen data is very common

we don’t know if the data will be used to steal identities

we don’t know where the data will be allowed to be stored in future or if the protections of today will be revoked

with so many of us living in synchronicity with the internet these are real problems. i’d advise everyone to call/email/write to their local MPs and kick up a huge stink but in the meantime:

STOP TORRENTING (for the time being)

think about getting a VPN and checking DNS leak (PIA and NordVPN are good options)

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Listen. Do you think there is anything to worry about? They're isn't anything to worry about

[margotxmargot]

I was searching furry art fr art refs yesterday and i forgot about the data retention laws now ASIO thinks I’m a furry and I’m on some list somewhere

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And if we ever get bored, we'll tell your friends and family!

[digitalleadgeneration]

On Tuesday, Australia’s controversial data retention regime officially kicked off to the dismay of privacy advocates and Aussie Internet users, but perhaps to the benefit of virtual private networks providers (VPNs).

Passed in March, the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015, which mandates the collection of every Australian’s metadata by telecommunication companies, will see information such as IP addresses, who you’ve emailed, and the date and time you made calls, stored for two years, among other bits of personal data.

See also: 5 massive problems with Australia’s metadata retention regime Read more…

More about Privacy, Australia, Tech, Vpns, and Meta Data

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Oh god i hope the terrorists and ABC watchers don’t find out about this

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Tumblr please delete this post, it is radicalising your user base.

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To Nobody's Surprise, Australian “Terrorism” Law May Be Used for Copyright Enforcement

As we foreshadowed, a new law requiring mandatory data retention by ISPs was introduced into the Australian federal parliament last week. In the few days since then, there have been claims and counter-claims about whether data obtained under the new law would be limited to use in fighting major crimes (such as terrorism, as the government originally claimed), or if it could be used to target citizens who download and share files online.

The current party line, from flip-flopping Attorney-General George Brandis (whom some may remember from this train-wreck interview in which he attempted to define “metadata”) is that the new laws “can’t be and they won’t be” used to prosecute file sharers, because copyright infringement is only a civil offense.

Except, of course, when it isn’t. There are a wide range of criminal offenses defined under Australia’s copyright law, including penalties for sharing copyright works on (what is loosely defined as) a commercial scale, and penalties for breaking DRM—both of which result from Australia’s 2005 free trade agreement with the United States, and are likely to be replicated and perhaps toughened in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Moreover, as Minister for Communications, Malcolm Turnbull, has admitted, once the data has been collected and is being retained by an ISP, there is nothing to prevent a civil court from allowing access to that data to other parties, for purposes other than those the government intended. This might, for example, include a movie studio suing an ISP for release of retained customer data to support lawsuits or shakedown claims against those customers. (By no coincidence, exactly such a lawsuit is currently underway.)

The only solution is the obvious one—not to require the collection and retention of the data in the first place. If data stored under a compulsory mandate can be misused for extraneous purposes, history tells us that it will be. This lesson lies behind the adoption of data minimization as a key principle of modern data protection law—a lesson that Australia’s lawmakers seem to have forgotten.

If even the government itself can’t give a clear account of what metadata will be collected and whether or not it will be used in enforcing copyright laws, why should ordinary Internet users have any faith that their collected data won’t be misused in practice? Now is time for Australian users to stand up to their government and Stop the Spies, before it’s too late.

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Someone has to stand up for the rights of corporations!

[polliestalkingshit]

“Why are we looking at the internet history, Mr Prime Minister?”

“Well my dear, terrorist metadata could be in here.”

[official-asio]

Gotta catch the radical youths!

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Welcome to all those joining the ASIO fanclub! Have fun and keep an eye out for radicalised youths!

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I wonder how ASIO has found their first day of seeing how asinine my internet habits are.

[official-asio]

Very illuminating!

[brbsavinggotham]

accidentally clicked on the walking dead trending tag on twitter and now whoever at ASIO is assigned to reading through my internet history probably thinks i’m like, into it :(

[official-asio]

Thanks for clearing that up!

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Australians' rights and freedom to speak out under threat, warns UN official

The UN special rapporteur for freedom of expression, David Kaye, worries whistleblower protections are at risk of being ‘chipped away’

Important rights and freedoms are at risk of being “chipped away” in Australia, the United Nations special rapporteur for freedom of expression has warned.

In an interview with Guardian Australia, David Kaye said laws restricting reporting on asylum seeker policies were “a real threat” to sources and whistleblowers.

“You see in Australia the restrictions on sources and reporters who might want to report about the migrant detention situation,” Kaye said. “And there might be some situations, perhaps based on privacy, where some information should not be released, and the restrictions on the disclosure might be legitimate.

“But blanket restrictions on an area of policy that is really of great importance to the public, I think that’s a real threat to sources. It’s also a threat to whistleblowers.”

Kaye said Australia had some strong protections, but there was growing concern about government overreach.

“On the one hand Australia has a very strong framework for freedom of information, and for whistleblower protection. The concern that I have, and I think that I’ve seen expressed by civil society and by journalists in Australia, is that those protections which are strong in law are being eroded, particularly in the context of the migration detention and surveillance issues.

“Those kinds of threats we’re definitely mindful of. On paper Australia has a very a strong set of norms. The question is: are they chipped away by these other interests and legal efforts that we’re seeing?”

News stories about asylum seekers – including some from Guardian Australia –have been referred to the Australian federal police for investigation with a view to prosecuting their sources. The Border Force Act, introduced in July, criminalises the disclosure of information by staff who work in immigration detention centres.

In September a senior UN human rights official, François Crépeau, cancelled a visit to Australia after the government failed to guarantee it would not seek reprisals against anyone who spoke to him.

Kaye’s latest report, released on Tuesday, urges nations to adopt stronger frameworks to protect whistleblowers and confidential sources.

The report was published on the same day that Australia began a data retention scheme under which telecommunications companies must retain a vast amount of phone and web data for two years.

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This would make our job so much easier though!

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Finally, some good news!

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Cathy Wilcox, SMH.

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Seriously, please pay no attention whatsoever, what you learn may radicalise you!

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The government is tracking our online activity now and as that includes porn searches there are a few you should avoid from now on:

terrorist threesome

Stunning big breasted redhead does anal as she explains how to make a bomb

The anarchist cookbook (gay porn edition)

Things that get off sex offenders

Naughty lesbian guard shows intricate blueprints to prisoner on how to escape prison for oral

Sexy journalist blows big black “whistle” and gets detention at Manus school centre

Fuck the government with a big black dick

Fuck the government with a bigger blacker dick

Dick shaped explosive designs

What are some crimes that involve jerking off?

Acts of treason involving cum shots

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Well that got our attention