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The Nightly: Exposing an accused Russian spy in the Australian Defence Force | POLITICO: "Moscow's Woman in Canberra"; 7NEWS.
The Nightly: Revealing accused Russian spy Kira Korolev was an Australian Defence Force star | 7NEWS; 7NEWS; 7NEWS Sunrise; The Nightly: The Coalition demands urgent investigation.
The Nightly: Revealing a cafe next door to Australia's top intelligence agency that serviced the nation’s intelligence community was co-owned by the wife in a couple honoured by Xi Jinping for their united front work in Australia | Interview Sky News' Sharri | Formiche.
The Nightly: Revealing the text messages of the son of a senior Chinese Government official claiming responsibility for a cyber attack that infected software used by Australia’s intelligence agencies.
Australian Financial Review: Revealing the life of the accused Medibank hacker—Australia's largest data hack | POLITICO Weekly Cybersecurity.
The Nightly: Revealing a government conspiracy behind the Iraqi jailing of Australian father Robert Pether.
The Guardian: Revealing company emails that discredit Iraqi prosecution testimony against Robert Pether | Ten's The Project: "Bombshell documents prove Aussie imprisoned in Iraq is innocent".
News Corp Australia: Revealing a man facing decades in a US prison for selling secrets to Russia once worked under ASIO chief Mike Burgess at the heart of Australia’s top secret networks.
News Corp Australia: Revealing Macquarie University has struck a 13-year deal approved by Beijing to build a joint campus inside China’s military-linked tech system—a school feeding recruits to the People’s Liberation Army, after which Foreign Minister Penny Wong ordered an urgent review.
News Corp Australia: Revealing the Albanese government has awarded almost $30 million to an Islamic organisation whose top cleric urged Muslims to wage jihad and fund fighters against Israel | The Times of Israel.
The Nightly: Revealing Chinese spymasters targeting Australia’s top security research institute | Interview Sky News' Sharri | Sky News' Sharri with Shadow Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister James Paterson; The Canberra Times.
News Corp Australia: Revealing a Russian government insider who recently ran a unit working alongside Vladimir Putin's intelligence agencies has returned to Canberra as Moscow's new ambassador.
News Corp Australia: Revealing Australian scientists are working alongside China’s top military university, the one answering to Xi Jinping’s Central Military Commission, to conduct research with links to the next technological era of warfare.
News Corp Australia: Revealing a scientist building multi-million dollar satellite technology for an Australian military contractor worked with Chinese military researchers on advanced wireless defence systems.
News Corp Australia: Revealing one of Australia’s newest university chiefs once headed a “special zone” licensed to take “unconventional measures” inside a top Chinese military technology university.
News Corp Australia: Revealing Australia’s national security agency was rocked by a multimillion-dollar clear-out of its senior ranks, with a leadership change stripping the organisation of decades of its post-9/11 counter-terrorism era experience.
News Corp Australia: Revealing a hacker group with reported ties to Iranian intelligence has claimed to have hacked a prominent Israeli political figure, using the heist to leak the private contact details of some of Australia’s most high-profile Jewish leaders.
7NEWS: Revealing Australia's top security-cleared officials are using PRC Government-surveilled WeChat for their most personal conversations, including about work.
The Canberra Times: Revealing Australia's counter foreign interference unit is preparing to leave some multicultural communities behind as it weighs more focus on interference targeting government - while ASIO warns foreign states may plot to kill dissidents on Australian soil.
The Australian: Revealing the Australian national university's published "research" urging sanctions relief for Iran—supervised by a U.S. sanctioned vice-president of the Islamic Republic | The Australian: Universities are the ‘soft underbelly’ of Iranian foreign influence, warns Moore-Gilbert.
News Corp Australia: Revealing Australia’s federal police are facing a near-tripling in misconduct allegations in three years, with serious misconduct claims surging and members reporting colleagues in record numbers.
News Corp Australia: Revealing a top adviser driving Australia’s domestic spy agency's “influence agenda” is now paid more than one of the organisation’s second-in-command.
The Australian: Revealing that the Albanese Government and NSW Premier Chris Minns have helped fund a Sydney Islamic centre, one of whose clerics preached alongside Iran’s supreme leader, president and foreign minister while his Hezbollah-linked affiliates vowed Israel would be “erased from the history books”.
News Corp Australia: Revealing that a cleric brought in to advise the NSW government on Jewish community safety preached to bring down federal Labor and open the gates for Hamas and Hezbollah—a law change that would potentially allow them to recruit, train and bankroll operations from Australia.
The Australian: Revealing that a leader of a Shia Islamic group that was praised by the NSW police and counter-terrorism minister is linked to two Iranian revolutionary networks—co-founded with Hamas and Hezbollah—and lauded the October 7, 2023, massacres and the “jihadist path” of the IRGC.
The Australian: Revealing that NSW Health hand-picked as a trusted community voice an Australian cleric who repeatedly praised Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian regime now accused of sponsoring young men to allegedly set an Australian synagogue ablaze.
News Corp Australia: Revealing that the NSW government sent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to a Sydney Islamic group with Hezbollah ties and whose leader publicly vowed the annihilation of Israel.
News Corp Australia: Revealing an Australian political candidate spent years inside a Venezuelan government research centre developing revolutionary theory that shaped Nicolás Maduro's political party.
News Corp Australia: Revealing Australian government and US military grants are helping to fund physics research by a Russian scientist attached to an institute at the centre of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear weapons program.
7NEWS: Revealing a Liberal candidate represented Opposition Leader Peter Dutton at a business dinner backed by a PRC Government-funded “overseas Chinese liaison station” while the opposition criticised the government for CCP united front interactions | The Bureau.
News Corp Australia: Revealing one of Australia’s most senior university executives—tasked with brokering research deals with China—once travelled to Xi Jinping’s ancestral province to take part in a leadership training seminar attended by the second-in-command of the PRC Government’s overseas Chinese affairs.
News Corp Australia: Revealing an Australian senator has unwittingly become a star of Iranian state propaganda—promoted by the same regime ASIO says plotted to burn down Jewish sites across the country.
Co-author ABC News: Revealing Chinese Communist Party influence in Confucius Institutes at universities and schools worldwide.
7NEWS: Revealing Victoria Police's Special Operations Group have a $22.6 million counter-terrorism training base at Avalon Airport and the Australian Federal Police considered the airport a high terrorism risk yet neither had any ongoing presence there when an armed intruder hijacked a plane bound for Sydney.
7NEWS: Revealing that the Dural caravan anti-semitic "mass casualty" counter-terrorism investigation spread interstate.
The Nightly: Interviewing an Australian victim of an Islamic State attack in Afghanistan | Initial story The Nightly: Australian tourist reportedly injured in Bamyan, Afghanistan shooting.
7NEWS: Exposing and tracing a luxury hotel fraudster exploiting men across Australia who was wanted for as long as seven years | QNews; Star Observer | 7NEWS: NSW convicts Dongqiao Li | Star Observer; OUTinPerth; QNews.
7NEWS: Revealing internal NSW Police documents about a wave of perceived ethnic and sexual orientation hate crimes across Sydney.
7NEWS: Revealing a violent gay hate crime near Oxford Street in Sydney and interviewing the offender | Star Observer.
Analysis
Analysis
News Corp Australia: Could Kevin Rudd be recalled? It's happened before.
ASPI The Strategist: Crowdstrike outage and vendor security.
The Australian: Democracy needs big tech in the tent.
Interviews
Interviews
The Australian: Dymocks 1 million customer hack.
The Australian: Accused Chinese spy Alexander Csergo.
Australian Financial Review: Defeating electoral misinformation.
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