OZschwitz: Stunning rise in ASIO complaints by 563 per cent in a year

ASIO is struggling under a deluge of immigration security checks, with complaints about the speed of vetting jumping by 563 per cent in a year, the nation's intelligence watchdog says.

The jump is believed to be due to the increased numbers of immigration detainees on Christmas Island - the government requires them to have security clearance cleared before moving them to the mainland.

ASIO staff treat the Christmas Island cases as priorities and that has resulted in longer waiting times for other checks.
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The new Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, Vivienne Thom, revealed in an annual report that there were 1015 complaints about delays in the last financial year, up from 153 for the preceding 12 months. ''We identified that there were increasing delays in ASIO's handling of security assessments,'' Dr Thom said.

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OZschwitz: Stunning rise in ASIO complaints by 563 per cent in a year

OZschwitz: Stunning rise in ASIO complaints by 563 per cent in a year

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