WESTERN Australian MP Andrew Hastie is being talked up as a possible deputy to Liberal leadership front-runner Peter Dutton. The former Australian SAS officer is being seriously considered among influential Party members as an alternative to the media-fancied Sussan Ley. As Assistant…
UNIVERSITY leaders should be hiding their faces in shame having diverted stretched national intelligence resources to deal with subversive threats on campus. The chairman of Australia’s Federal Intelligence & Security Committee Andrew Hastie said ASIO’s job was to deal with the most pressing threats to the nation – not securitising universities.
THE head of Australia’s powerful Intelligence & Security Joint Committee has called for the reinstatement of National Service as Australia’s strategic position continues to deteriorate. With rising concerns around a “strategic miscalculation” within the region, Committee chairman Andrew Hastie warned the risk of conflict was also increasing.
