Wednesday 19 September at 5.30 for 6pm
Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle Forrest
MCH members $5, concession (Government Support) and full-time students $10
Non-members $15.00
Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/XPAP
In December 2017 the Department of Home Affairs was created, assuming many functions from the Attorney General’s Department, including national security policy and coordination, criminal law and law enforcement.
The functions it took over from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet included cyber- and counter terrorism policy coordination, and the new department absorbed the whole of the former Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
Professor Blaxland will discuss the implications of these administrative re-arrangements for Australia’s intelligence agencies.
About the speaker: John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU. He is a lead author in the three-volume official history of ASIO, having authored Volume II, The Protest Years, 1963-75 (Allen & Unwin 2015), and co-authored The Secret Cold War, 1975-89 (2016). John has also published works on the intervention in East Timor, the Australian Army, and on counterinsurgency. He makes regular appearances in the print and electronic media as a commentator on intelligence and security matters.
