Abstract
In recent years several public events have raised serious questions about the respect shown by the Australian intelligence agencies and their political masters for civil liberties. The controversies have been linked to certain structural changes announced in 2017. This paper puts these changes and the associated controversies in the context of the principles and structures established by Justice Robert Marsden Hope in two royal commissions on the agencies in the 1970s and 1980s. It concludes that another wide-ranging review, comparable to the Hope royal commissions, would be timely and appropriate.
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