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The '''Australian Security Intelligence Organisation''' is, officially, [[Australia|Australia's]] 'national security agency', but much like its US counter-parts the [[CIA]] and [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], 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) and it has been alleged that the Organisation compiled a list of some 10,000 suspected leftists who would be arrested should the [[Cold War]] escalate.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051208235840/http://www.abc.net.au/time/episodes/ep8a.htm# ABC News (1997) - War on Dissent (Archived)]</ref>

=== 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 [[Chilean Military Coup (1973)|military coup]] 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]] or the [[New Order (Indonesia)|New Order]] in [[Indonesia]].

=== Royal Commission ===

=== Hilton Hotel Bombing ===
There is significant evidence to suggest that the ASIO might have orchestrated [[Sydney Hilton Hotel Bombing|the bombing]] or at least have been aware of the possibility and allowed it to proceed.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Hilton_Hotel_bombing#Accusations_of_conspiracy</ref>

=== 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 [[Environmentalism|environmental reasons]].<ref>Sydney Morning Herald (2016) - [https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/asio-eyes-green-groups-20120411-1wsba.html ASIO Eyes Green Groups]</ref>

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

== 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 (2019)|Christchurch Mosque Shootings]], an [[Brendon Tarrant|Australian fascist]] 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.

== References ==
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