The **Australian Security Intelligence Organisation** is, officially,
[Australia's](Australia "wikilink") 'national security agency', but much
like its US counter-parts the [CIA](CIA "wikilink") and
[FBI](Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation "wikilink"), it has been far more
involved in suppressing Australia's small leftist population than doing
anything else.

## Notable Activities

### Opposition to the Political Left

The ASIO has consistently been monitoring the political left (and likely
still is)

### Failure to deal with the USSR

### Chilean Military Coup

ASIO agents stationed in Chile in the early 1970s helping the US in the
leadup to the [military coup](Chilean_Military_Coup_\(1973\) "wikilink")
were ordered to leave, but defied the government and stayed, helping the
CIA overthrow yet another democratic government. This continues a long
string of authoritarian regimes supported by the Australian government,
like [Saudi Arabia](Saudi_Arabia "wikilink") or the [New
Order](New_Order_\(Indonesia\) "wikilink") in
[Indonesia](Indonesia "wikilink").

### Royal Commission

### Hilton Hotel Bombing

### Spying on Anti-Coal Activists

In 2012 it was exposed that the ASIO had been monitoring groups and
individual that had protested against the coal industry for
[environmental reasons](Environmentalism "wikilink").

### False Imprisonments

## Terrorist Attacks the ASIO succeeded in Preventing

  - 2018: The ASIO intercepted a group of Islamic terrorists from
    planning a large terrorist attack in Melbourne.\[1\]

## Terrorist Attacks the ASIO Failed to Prevent

  - 2018: The Melbourne CBD stabbings, an ISIS-supporting immigrant
    stabbed 3 people (killing 1) in Melbourne. ASIO had known of the man
    and his links to ISIS, but did nothing.
  - 2019: The [Christchurch Mosque
    Shootings](Christchurch_Mosque_Shootings_\(2019\) "wikilink"), an
    [Australian fascist](Brendon_Tarrant "wikilink") drives to two
    mosques in the city of christchurch, New Zealand and killed 51
    people, injuring another 49. The ASIO, despite being aware of his
    violent ideological beliefs and access to weapons, did nothing.

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1.  ABC News (2018) - [Melbourne CBD Christmas bomb plot foiled by ASIO
    rookie's chance
    encounter](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/rookie-asio-officer-thwarted-deadly-terror-attack/10498426)