Gathered intelligence or antipodean exceptionalism? Securing the development of ASIO's detention and questioning regime

Abstract

This article takes as its central theme the idea that in developing the Australian counter-terrorism response of the ASIO questioning and detention regime, distinctive, identifiable characteristics have emerged in the Government approach to international and comparative examples necessarily referred and responded to as justifying that development. These characteristics may be conveniently described as the Australianisation of international and comparative counter-terrorism examples, or selective internationalism, and these features are variously manifested in the areas examined in this article.