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“Comparative Silence” Still?: Journalism, academia, and the Five Eyes of Edward Snowden Digital Journalism Pages 353-367 | Published online: 17 Nov 2016 Felicity Ruby, Gerard Goggin & John Keane Abstract This paper revisits the longstanding debate about...

Finally, some Snowden documents on Australia A full four years after they were provided by Snowden to journalists, the first documents focused on Australia became available in August 2017 through a joint investigation by the ABC’s Peter Cronau and The Intercept’s Ryan...

On Saturday 28 January 2017, seventy peace people gathered at the annual protest at the Waihopai spy base run by the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) on behalf the US National Security Agency (NSA). Surrounded by vineyards, trees laden with fruit...

In his new film Zero Days, Alex Gibney uses the Stuxnet weapon created by the US and Israel as a context and pretext to talk about cyber weapons, cyber war and call for cyber peace. A “zero day” is a technical term for a software bug. It that can be used to break into...

A report by Desmond Ball, Bill Robinson, and Richard Tanter, ‘The Antennas of Pine Gap’, NAPSNet Special Report, was published on 22 February 2016. Download the report here Some photos in the report taken by me on 23 January 2016 are available in high resolution below...

How unique is Edward Snowden among national security whistleblowers? Is his new or old information about mass surveillance? Given the Five Eyes intelligence sharing arrangement has been in place for almost seventy years, Snowden’s evidence of its reach and power to...