Keeping pollies out of the spy trade

By Damien Murphy
Updated January 7 2018 - 9:38am, first published January 1 2018 - 4:16pm

Cabinet established an inquiry into the Australian Secret Intelligence Service in February 1994 amid mounting concerns that - as the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Gareth Evans later conceded - its "internal culture ??? places a high premium on secrecy and loyalty", valuing neither accountability nor accuracy as much as it might.

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