ASIO’s funding since the “war on terror” began, including the funding it has received to build its vastly over-budget and long-delayed new headquarters in the Parliamentary Triangle in Canberra:
ASIO has done very well out of recent wars, under both Labor and Liberal governments. At times it has had so much money it was unable to hire people fast enough to spend it. ASIO continues to demand a bigger role on top of its already draconian powers given to it by the Howard government to prosecute the apparently perpetual terror war.
The question for parliamentarians shouldn’t be whether ASIO doesn’t have enough money, but how much is enough for an organisation that apparently can never get enough of anything?
Indeed. Australia is a long way from Lionel Murphy’s raid on ASIO in 1973.
After the Opposition’s barrage this week in Question Time, flogging the theme about funding being snatched away from AS10, this graph confirms they are the fools they frequently appear.
ASIO spreads wooffle dust to stave off the ravening zombie hordes. When it is pointed out that there are no zombies, the response is that it proves how effective is the wooffle dust. Expensive mayhap, but effective.