Australian Security Intelligence Organisation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/01/2019

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00:01:16 1 Command, control and organisation
00:02:56 2 Powers and accountability
00:03:06 2.1 Special investigative powers
00:04:21 2.2 Special terrorism investigative powers
00:05:10 2.3 Immunity from prosecution
00:06:08 2.4 Collection of foreign intelligence
00:06:43 2.5 Accountability
00:08:19 3 Relationships with foreign agencies and services
00:08:53 4 History
00:09:02 4.1 Pre-ASIO
00:11:54 4.2 Establishment and 'The Case'
00:15:25 4.3 The Petrov Affair
00:19:20 4.4 The Cold War
00:20:19 4.5 Penetration by the KGB
00:22:32 4.6 Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
00:23:39 4.7 Surveillance of anti-coal activists
00:25:06 5 Royal commissions, inquiries and reviews
00:25:17 5.1 Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, 1974–77
00:26:30 5.2 Protective Security Review, 1978–79
00:27:18 5.3 Royal Commission on Australian Security and Intelligence Agencies, 1983–84
00:28:45 5.4 Post-Cold War review, 1992
00:30:27 5.5 Inquiry into National Security, 1993
00:31:03 5.6 Parliamentary Joint Committee inquiries
00:31:54 6 Criticisms, controversies and conspiracies
00:32:05 6.1 Opposition to the political left
00:32:55 6.2 Raids on ASIO Central Office, 1973
00:33:59 6.3 The Sydney Hilton bombing allegations of conspiracy, 1978
00:35:04 6.4 Anti-terrorism bungle, 2001
00:35:42 6.5 Kim Beazley-Ratih Hardjono investigation, 2004
00:36:52 6.6 Detention and removal of Scott Parkin, 2005
00:38:37 6.7 Kidnap and false imprisonment of Izhar ul-Haque, 2007
00:39:44 7 Archival material
00:40:12 8 See also



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The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO ) is Australia's national security agency responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, attacks on the Australian defence system, and terrorism. ASIO is comparable with the British Security Service (MI5) and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). ASIO is part of the Australian Intelligence Community. 
ASIO has a wide range of surveillance powers to collect human and signals intelligence. Generally, ASIO operations requiring police powers of arrest and detention under warrant are co-ordinated with the Australian Federal Police and/or with state and territory police forces.ASIO Central Office is in Canberra, with a local office being located in each mainland state and territory capital. A new A$630 million Central Office, Ben Chifley Building, named after Ben Chifley, prime minister when ASIO was created, was officially opened by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 23 July 2013.