A former policy heavy-hitter from the Department of Finance has been named as a new Defence associate secretary.

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The government has promised to publicly release a review of national intelligence and law enforcement agencies in April.

The NSW Legislative Assembly Committee on Law and Safety will be asked to recommend what slogans and phrases should be captured by new hate speech laws following a terrorist attack in Bondi targeting ...

For a public servant, DEWR’s Natalie James spent a lot of time in the limelight. We look back on her three-and-a-half years ...

The Bondi attack exposed how fast the Philippines is pulled into terror narratives, even when the facts do not fit.