Organisations and people interviewed by the review
Australian Government
The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister
The Hon Kevin Rudd MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs
The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Defence
Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation
The Hon Robert McClelland MP, Attorney-General
The Hon Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship
For the Hon Greg Combet AM, MP: Mr Allan Behm, Chief of Staff, Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
The Hon Brendan O’Connor MP, Minister for Justice and Home Affairs
The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC, MP, Cabinet Secretary
Members of Parliament
For the Hon Tony Abbott MP: Mr Mark Higgie, International Adviser to the Leader of the Opposition
The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs
Senator the Hon David Johnston, Shadow Minister for Defence
The Hon Philip Ruddock MP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary
Former Members of Parliament
The Hon Peter Costello AC
The Hon Alexander Downer
The Hon Lindsay Tanner
Australian Public Service
Attorney-General’s Department
Mr Roger Wilkins AO, Secretary
AusAID
Mr Peter Baxter, Director-General
Australian Crime Commission
Mr John Lawler APM, Chief Executive Officer
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
Mr Michael Carmody AO, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Mike Pezzullo, Chief Operating Officer
Australian Federal Police
Mr Tony Negus APM, Commissioner
Mr Andrew Colvin APM, OAM, Deputy Commissioner Operations
Mr Peter Drennan APM, Deputy Commissioner National Security
Mr Michael Phelan APM, Deputy Commissioner Close Operations Support
Ms Rebecca Irwin, National Manager, Policy and Governance
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
Mr John Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
Mr Nick Warner AO, PSM, Director-General and staff
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Mr David Irvine AO, Director-General and staff
Department of Finance and Deregulation
Mr David
Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy
Mr Peter Harris, Secretary
Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
Ms Louise Hand, First Assistant Secretary, International Division
Department of Defence
Dr Ian Watt AO, then Secretary
Mr Stephen Merchant PSM, Deputy Secretary, Intelligence and Security
Mr Peter Jennings, Deputy Secretary, Strategy
Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation
Mr Steve Meekin AM, Director and staff
Defence Intelligence Organisation
Major General Richard Wilson AO, Director and staff
Defence Signals Directorate
Mr Ian McKenzie, Director and staff
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Mr Dennis Richardson AO, Secretary
HE the Hon Kim Beazley AO, Ambassador to the United States of America
HE the Hon John Dauth AC, LVO, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
HE Mr Justin Brown, Australian High Commissioner, Ottawa
HE Mr Paul O’Sullivan AO, High Commissioner to New Zealand
HE Mr Peter Varghese AO, High Commissioner to India
Mr Bill Paterson, Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism
Mr James Larsen, Ambassador for People Smuggling Issues
Dr Robert Floyd, Director-General, Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Mr Andrew Metcalfe, Secretary
Mr Lance Thomas, Director, Immigration Intelligence
Department of Infrastructure and Transport
Mr Mike Mrdak, Secretary
Mr Mick Palmer AO, APM, Inspector of Transport Security
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Mr Terry Moran AO, then Secretary
Mr Duncan Lewis AO, DSC, CSC, then National Security Adviser
Dr Margot McCarthy, then Deputy National Security Adviser
Ms Rachel Noble, then National Security Community Chief Information Officer
Mr Michael Shoebridge, then First Assistant Secretary, Defence, Intelligence and Research Coordination Division
Mr Peter Furlonger, Special Adviser, Defence, Intelligence and Research Coordination Division
Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Dr Vivienne Thom, Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Office of National Assessments
Mr Allan Gyngell AO, Director-General and staff
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Professor John McMillan AO, Australian Information Commissioner
Mr Timothy Pilgrim, Privacy Commissioner
Dr James Popple, Freedom of Information Commissioner
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
The Hon Anthony Byrne MP, Chair, and other Committee members
Prime Minister’s Office
Mr Richard Maude, Senior Adviser – International, Defence, Trade
The Treasury
Dr Ken Henry AC, then Secretary
Australian Defence Force
Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC, AFC, then Chief of the Defence Force
Lieutenant General David Hurley AC, DSC, then Vice Chief of the Defence Force
Vice Admiral Russ Crane AO CSM, then Chief of Navy
Air Marshal Mark Binskin AO, then Chief of Air Force
Lieutenant General Mark Evans AO DSC, then Chief of Joint Operations
Air Marshal John Harvey AM, Chief Capability Development Group
Major General Gus Gilmore DSC, AM, Special Operations Commander Australia
National Security Committees
National Counter-Terrorism Committee
National Intelligence Coordination Committee
National Intelligence Collection Management Committee
Others
Professor Ross Babbage AM, Managing Director, Strategy International (ACT) Pty Ltd and Founder of The Kokoda Foundation
Dr Richard Brabin-Smith AO, former Deputy Secretary for Strategic Policy and Chief Defence Scientist
Mr Martin Brady AO, former Director, Defence Signals Directorate and former Chairman, Defence Intelligence Board
The Hon Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
Mr Julian Burnside AO, QC, Victorian Bar
Mr Ian Carnell AM, former Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Mr Philip Flood AO, former Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and head of the 2004 Inquiry into Australian Intelligence Agencies
Mr Michael L’Estrange AO, Director, National Security College, the Australian National University and former Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Mr George Lekakis AO, former Chair, Victorian Multicultural Commission
Lieutenant General (Ret’d) Peter Leahy AC, former Chief of Army
Mr Frank Lewincamp PSM, former Director, Defence Intelligence Organisation
Dr James Renwick, Barrister, NSW Bar
Mr Richard Smith AO, PSM, former Secretary, Department of Defence
Dr Carl Ungerer, Program Director of the National Security Program, Australian Strategic Policy Unit
Professor Hugh White, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
Overseas Partners
The United States of America
Central Intelligence Agency
Defense Intelligence Agency
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Counterterrorism Center
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Intelligence Council
National Security Agency
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
President’s Intelligence Advisory Board
US Department of State
US House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Ms Peggy Cloherty, Director, East Asia Group, Open Source Center
Dr Eliot Cohen, Johns Hopkins University
Dr David Gordon, Head of Research, Eurasia Group
General Michael Hayden, Chertoff Group
Dr Steve Kaplan, BoozAllenHamilton
Ms Ellen Laipson, President, Stimson Center
Mr John McLaughlin, Johns Hopkins University
Dr Jennifer Sims, Georgetown University
The United Kingdom
British Secret Intelligence Service
British Security Service, including the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre
Cabinet Office
Government Communications Headquarters
UK Ministry of Defence
Mr Greg Shapland, Head of Foreign and Commonwealth Office Research Analysts Cadre
Lord Carlile of Berriew QC, former Independent Reviewer of Intelligence Legislation
Canada
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Communications Security Establishment
Privy Council Office
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Major General Christian Rousseau, Chief of Defence Intelligence
Mr William Baker, Deputy Minister for Public Safety
New Zealand
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Government Communications Security Bureau
New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
Rear Admiral Jack Steer, Vice Chief of the Defence Force
Colonel Angela Fitzsimmons, Director Defence Intelligence
Afghanistan
Major General Angus Campbell AM, Commander, Joint Task Force 633
Other officers and personnel who cannot be named for security and operational reasons