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61 lines
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The **Australian Security Intelligence Organisation** is, officially,
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[Australia's](Australia "wikilink") 'national security agency', but much
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like its US counter-parts the [CIA](CIA "wikilink") and
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[FBI](Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation "wikilink"), it has been far more
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involved in suppressing Australia's small leftist population than doing
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anything else.
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## Notable Activities
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### Opposition to the Political Left
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The ASIO has consistently been monitoring the political left (and likely
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still is)
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### Failure to deal with the USSR
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### Chilean Military Coup
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ASIO agents stationed in Chile in the early 1970s helping the US in the
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leadup to the [military coup](Chilean_Military_Coup_\(1973\) "wikilink")
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were ordered to leave, but defied the government and stayed, helping the
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CIA overthrow yet another democratic government. This continues a long
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string of authoritarian regimes supported by the Australian government,
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like [Saudi Arabia](Saudi_Arabia "wikilink") or the [New
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Order](New_Order_\(Indonesia\) "wikilink") in
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[Indonesia](Indonesia "wikilink").
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### Royal Commission
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### Hilton Hotel Bombing
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### Spying on Anti-Coal Activists
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In 2012 it was exposed that the ASIO had been monitoring groups and
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individual that had protested against the coal industry for
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[environmental reasons](Environmentalism "wikilink").
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### False Imprisonments
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## Terrorist Attacks the ASIO succeeded in Preventing
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- 2018: The ASIO intercepted a group of Islamic terrorists from
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planning a large terrorist attack in Melbourne.\[1\]
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## Terrorist Attacks the ASIO Failed to Prevent
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- 2018: The Melbourne CBD stabbings, an ISIS-supporting immigrant
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stabbed 3 people (killing 1) in Melbourne. ASIO had known of the man
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and his links to ISIS, but did nothing.
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- 2019: The [Christchurch Mosque
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Shootings](Christchurch_Mosque_Shootings_\(2019\) "wikilink"), an
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[Australian fascist](Brendon_Tarrant "wikilink") drives to two
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mosques in the city of christchurch, New Zealand and killed 51
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people, injuring another 49. The ASIO, despite being aware of his
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violent ideological beliefs and access to weapons, did nothing.
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<!-- end list -->
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1. ABC News (2018) - [Melbourne CBD Christmas bomb plot foiled by ASIO
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rookie's chance
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encounter](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-15/rookie-asio-officer-thwarted-deadly-terror-attack/10498426) |