National security
- Opinion
- Opinion
Australians know we’re under threat – and underprepared
A massive new study on attitudes to national security shows that while public anxiety is rising, there is some reassuring unity in our shared priorities.
- Rory Medcalf
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- Opinion
- Opinion
Matt Canavan has done in an hour what Angus Taylor failed to do in a month
Australia - the complacent country - is receiving a wake-up call on race, resilience and energy.
- Peter Hartcher
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- Russia-Ukraine war
Police dig into the case of the Australian miner and the Kremlin ‘slush fund’
A little-known Melbourne company bankrolled by rich-listers is at the centre of Australia’s first criminal investigation into Russian sanction breaches.
- Sherryn Groch
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- Emergency services
Hear the shrill new emergency alert coming to every mobile in Australia
The federal government will test a new national warning system on Monday, July 27. You won’t be able to opt out.
- Mike Foley
Keyboard warriors and worse: Threat to politicians from the public is greater than ever
The bomb threat that forced Anthony Albanese to evacuate The Lodge is the latest sign of a political climate growing steadily harsher, where threats are harder to dismiss as isolated incidents.
- Rob Harris
- Updated
- Anthony Albanese
PM evacuated from The Lodge over security threat
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been forced to evacuate from The Lodge, his residence in Canberra, while police searched the premises following a security threat.
- Paul Sakkal
- Opinion
- Opinion
Bring these Australian children home, PM. They did not make their own beds
Preventing the return of women and children trapped in Syria will not make Australia safer.
- Fionnuala Ni Aolain and Ben Saul
‘That was a long way of saying yes’: Tony Burke admits ISIS brides have Australian passports
The home affairs minister earlier confirmed he had used a temporary exclusion order to bar one of the 34 Australian citizens from returning home.
- Michael Bachelard, Brittany Busch, Mohammed Hassan and Alexander Darling
Doctor who helped re-elect Tony Burke leading efforts to bring IS brides back to Australia
The effort to bring back the women and children is being organised by western Sydney doctor Jamal Rifi, who led Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s re-election campaign.
- Michael Bachelard and Matthew Knott
‘You have to be an Aussie citizen’: Details of gun laws revealed, but no word on mental health checks
Queensland’s new gun laws will include citizenship requirements and tougher penalties for already criminalised activity – but no buyback scheme.
- Courtney Kruk