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National Archives of Australia Audio Podcast

Release of the records of the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security

Fetched: June 3rd, 2008, 4:52pm PDT

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Working closely with Australia’s security and intelligence agencies, on 27 May 2008 the National Archives of Australia released the records of the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security (RCIS). Dr Jim Stokes, of the National Archives, speaks about the background to the Royal Commission and its recordkeeping, and about the work of the National Archives to make these records available to researchers.
The RCIS: An insider’s perspective

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Former Secretary to the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security (RCIS), George Brownbill, tells what it was like working on the RCIS, the first inquiry into Australia’s security and intelligence agencies. Working to Royal Commissioner the Hon. Justice Robert Hope, Brownbill spent two and a half years asking difficult questions of agencies, such as ASIO, which he says were ‘badly politicised’. At the time of the RCIS, which began in 1974, most of the agencies under investigation were still largely unknown by the Australian public.

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