James King

Secret payments from a Russian intelligence contractor and a home down the road from Russia's military intelligence agency. The first time an Australian media outlet has obtained internal Russian Government documents. @TheNightlyAU and @7NEWSAustralia. thenightly.com.au/world/kira-kor…

Exclusive: Australia’s domestic spy agency is facing fresh scrutiny after revelations a top advisor driving its “influence agenda” is now paid more than one of the organisation’s second-in-command. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Exclusive: A shadowy hacker group with reported ties to Iranian intelligence has claimed to have hacked a prominent Israeli political figure, using the heist to leak the private contact details of some of Australia’s most high-profile Jewish leaders. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Exclusive: Australia’s national security agency was rocked by a multimillion-dollar clear-out of its senior ranks, with a leadership change stripping the organisation of decades of its post-9/11 counter-terrorism era experience. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

From Burgess to Bondi to behind bars. Exclusive: A man facing decades in a US prison for selling secrets to Russia once worked under ASIO chief Mike Burgess at the heart of Australia’s top secret networks. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Exclusive: The Albanese government has awarded almost $30 million to an Islamic organisation whose top cleric urged Muslims to wage jihad and fund fighters against Israel. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Exclusive: A Russian government insider who recently ran a unit that worked alongside Vladimir Putin’s intelligence agencies has returned to Canberra as Moscow’s new ambassador. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Macquarie University’s deal with Nanjing Normal University (NNU) has raised fresh questions about research security, with Foreign Minister Penny Wong now seeking answers. 1/3 🧵 dailytelegraph.com.au/education/high…

Exclusive: An urgent review has been launched into an Australian university’s partnership with China to train its next generation of cyber warriors. dailytelegraph.com.au/education/high…

Exclusive: An Australian senator has unwittingly become a star of Iranian state propaganda – promoted by the same regime ASIO says plotted to burn down Jewish sites across the country. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Great to meet up with @ANUAlumni & former "Honeypots and Overcoats" student, @isjamesking, who now works for @newscorp as investigations editor, national news. Check out a couple of his groundbreaking recent stories here. thenightly.com.au/world/kira-kor… and here thenightly.com.au/politics/austr…

Could Rudd be recalled? It’s happened before. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Exclusive: The NSW Minns Government has directed tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to a Sydney Islamic group with Hezbollah ties whose leader publicly vowed the annihilation of Israel. @DailyTelegraph dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/…

Exclusive: A cleric brought in to advise the NSW Minns government on Jewish community safety preached to bring down federal Labor and open the gates for Hamas and Hezbollah to potentially recruit, train and bankroll their operations from Australia. dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/cleri…

Exclusive: The Albanese government and NSW Premier Minns have helped fund a Sydney Islamic centre one of whose clerics preached alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader while his Hezbollah-linked affiliates vowed Israel would be “erased from the history books”. theaustralian.com.au/nation/reveale…

Exclusive: A leader of a Shia Islamic group that was praised by NSW Premier Chris Minns and his counter-terrorism minister is linked to two Iranian revolutionary networks co-founded with Hamas and Hezbollah . theaustralian.com.au/nation/laborpr…

Exclusive: A Sydney cleric who repeatedly praised Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian regime now accused of sponsoring young men to allegedly set an Australian synagogue ablaze was hand-picked by NSW Health as a trusted community voice. theaustralian.com.au/nation/hardlin…

Saudi Arabia executed a 30 year old man for crimes he was accused of committing when he was 15. Jalal al-Labbad and his brothers were imprisoned over charges stemming from participation in Arab Spring protests in 2011. He was executed today. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/…

Russia orders state-backed MAX messenger app, a WhatsApp rival, pre-installed on phones and tablets reuters.com/technology/rus…

Republicans are waging war on Europe’s free-speech restrictions, @conor64 writes. This might seem suspect, given the GOP’s own censorship campaigns. But European leaders are showing “every sign of sliding further down a slippery slope into illiberalism”: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Anhui Convergence: Chinese United Front Network Surfaces in Australian and Canadian Elections, Revealing Beijing’s Transnational Influence Strategy thebureau.news/p/the-anhui-co…