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The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS / ˈ eɪ s ɪ s /) is the foreign intelligence agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, responsible for gathering, processing, and analysing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence. The service was formed in 1952, however its existence ...
An Australian federal budget is a document that sets out the estimated revenues and expenditures of the Australian Treasury in the following financial year, proposed conduct of Australian government operations in that period, and its fiscal policy for the forward years. [1]
The final budget outcomes for 2022–23 delivered a surplus of $22.1 billion (equivalent to 0.9% of Australia’s GDP), which was well above the government's forecasted surplus of $4.3 billion; this is Australia's first budget surplus in 15 years, and the largest ever Australian budget surplus. [11]
The Australian government's debt level was forecasted to be $977 billion for 2022–23, whilst net debt was forecasted to be $714.9 billion. Debt was forecasted to reach $1.16 trillion by the 2015/26 financial year.
The 2019 Australian federal budget was the federal budget to fund government services and operations for the 2019–20 financial year. The budget was presented to the House of Representatives by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on 2 April 2019.
In 1952 it became the Australian Secret Service, renamed as the Australian Secret Intelligence Service in 1954. [2] In 1947 a permanent signals intelligence agency in the Department of Defence was established, called the Defence Signals Bureau.
[7] [8] On 1 December 2017, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Nick Warner, then Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and former Secretary of the Department of Defence, to serve as the Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence. [9] [10] ONI was formally stood up on 20 December 2018. [3]
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO / ˈ eɪ z i oʊ /) is the domestic intelligence and national security agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, terrorism and attacks on the national defence system