ASIO no-show on campus

Friday, March 30, 2007 - 10:00

Emboldened by the current right-wing security environment, spy agencies are attempting to recruit at Australian universities.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the foreign spy outfit, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, booked a joint stall at the careers fair at the University of Technology, Sydney, on March 27. The prospect of a protest by students against the presence of ASIO and ASIS on campus apparently led the spy organisations to cancel their appearance, but not without leaving a stack of postcards announcing their presence.

From GLW issue 705

Tags:

Sydney

Support glw

"Without Green Left Weekly, freedom of press and public truth-telling in Australia would be gravely ill." John Pilger

Donate securely online - every cent you donate helps us to keep going.

Links

Get in touch

Don't just get informed, get active! Receive regular emails about GLW & progressive events in your area.

get connected

join us on facebook follow our tweets add us to your rss feed

about GLW - the need for alternative media

In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. By printing the news and ideas the mainstream media won't, Green Left Weekly exposes the lies and distortions of the power brokers and helps us to better understand the world around us.

Green Left Weekly, launched in 1990 by progressive activists to present the views excluded by the big business media, is now Australia's leading source of local, national and international news, analysis, and discussion and debate to strengthen the anti-capitalist movements.