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Government announces cloud based storage facility to keep secrets

Defence Minister Richard Marles says the purpose built $2 billion cloud storage facility will keep data secure in Australia.
Defence Minister Richard Marles speaking.
Duration: 2 minutes 19 seconds

Amazon wins $2b contract to store 'top-secret' Australian military intelligence

American technology giant Amazon will establish a "top-secret" data cloud to store classified Australian military and intelligence information under a partnership with the federal government.
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As Julian Assange languished in a British prison, Anthony Albanese passed a message to his lawyers that would prove a turning point

For the first time, two of the people closest to the negotiations to free Julian Assange have revealed what it took to convince the United States to release the man who had published hundreds of thousands of their most secret documents.
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Bondi businessman accused of reckless foreign interference granted bail

Alexander Csergo has pleaded not guilty to the single charge after he was arrested in April last year, having recently returned home to Bondi from overseas. He has remained in custody since.
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US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Donald Trump’s trial was a ‘sham’

Donald Trump supporter Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was part of a bipartisan group of US lawmakers that urged President Joe Biden to drop the case against Assange.
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Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds

Australia welcomes Julian Assange home

Julian Assange is now a free man following a guilty plea made on a remote US territory in the Pacific, putting an end to his long running legal dramas.
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Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds

'Home': Julian Assange reunites with family after he arrives in Canberra

The WikiLeaks founder and once-fugitive Julian Assange lands in Canberra after a plea deal gives him "time-served" on a conspiracy charge for leaking US intelligence 15 years ago.
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Fmr CIA chief of staff says democracy 'a messy thing at times'

Larry Pfeiffer says Julian Assange has probably served more time awaiting a verdict and in self-imposed imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy than if he had faced a US court.
Intelligence Perspective, Julian Assange: The logo of the CIA on an interior marble floor.

opinion:Assange's journey home will be much longer than his flight back to Australia. I know from first-hand experience

Julian Assange may finally be out, but his case has undeniably had a serious chilling effect on public interest journalism, and sends a terrifying message to any sources sitting on evidence of abuses by the government and its agencies.
Julian Assange greets supporters outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange strikes plea deal with United States

After 1,901 days in prison, Julian Assange could soon be a free man after striking a plea deal with the United States Government.
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Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

Julian Assange knew 'for weeks' he was being released from UK prison

Julian Assange's family plan to sit back and have some beer and champagne should all go to plan and he is soon back in Australia.
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Seven years in an embassy, five years in prison, now Julian Assange looks set to come home

Julian Assange has left the United Kingdom and will plead guilty to espionage. The deal marks a new chapter in a long-running saga that saw a Townsville kid take on the United States Department of Justice. 
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Intelligence expert Assange's leaking morphed into disinformation

John Blaxland says, while Julian Assange probably had the best of intentions, the knock on effects of his work has not been in the favour of liberal democracy.
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Duration: 4 minutes 5 seconds

Julian Assange's 'priority' is to 'get healthy again' following release, wife says — as it happened

Anthony Albanese has confirmed that Australian High Commissioner to the UK Stephen Smith is travelling with Julian Assange.
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Julian Assange freed from UK prison under plea deal with US Justice Department

WikiLeaks says its founder, Julian Assange, has been released from prison and has left the United Kingdom, shortly after court documents revealed a plea deal that would allow him to return to Australia.
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'Fixated on power': US Navy chief issues warning on China amid WA's thawing relationship with superpower

Just 24 hours after Chinese Premier Li Qiang dined on West Australian lobster and rubbed shoulders with the state's powerbrokers, a US Navy chief uses his Perth visit to urge a cautious approach to Australia's rekindled relationship with the superpower.
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'They're already here, they're already interfering': Indian intelligence accused of threatening Australians

The long arm of the Indian state is reaching Australians with threats against members of the Indian diaspora, the amassing of political power, and never-before-reported details of a "nest of spies".
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North Korea's latest military satellite was a litmus test for Russian influence — then it exploded

North Korea has tried and failed to launch a military satellite into space — a move that had threatened to violate United Nations conventions and further inflame tensions in the region.
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ASIO says it no longer needs powers to question minors as young as 14

The nation's domestic spy agency says the threat facing Australia has changed since it was given the contentious powers in 2020.
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Decision imminent on Julian Assange’s extradition

In a few hours a UK court is expected to hand down a decision on the fate of Julian Assange who’s been held in a London jail for the past five years.
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Duration: 5 minutes 28 seconds

Everyone has an opinion about Pine Gap, but no-one wants to talk about it

Journalist Alex Barwick has lived in Alice Springs for 16 years but she's only recently dared to investigate Pine Gap, the ultra-secretive US spy base in her own backyard. 
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eSafety Commissioner loses injunction fight with X over Wakeley stabbing video

The Federal Court has chosen not to extend a temporary order for social media company X, formerly Twitter, to hide videos of a Sydney terrorist stabbing globally.
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For the first time ever, a former spy for China's notorious secret police is going public

A spy for one of the most feared and powerful arms of China’s intelligence apparatus is revealing his identity and operations overseas, including in Australia, as part of a Four Corners investigation.
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China changes story on military confrontation, accuses Australia of spying

Beijing shifts its story on the latest confrontation between Chinese and Australian forces, claiming that one of its fighter jets intercepted an Australian helicopter because it was trying to spy on naval exercises in the Yellow Sea.
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How to run a travel agency for the spooks inside the secretive Pine Gap spy base

She once organised holidays from inside the secretive Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs, but 30 years later Helen Kilgariff knows one thing — she probably wouldn't be allowed to do it again.
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