George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I can. We work at a ministerial level, at an agency level, at a policing level and at a diplomatic level to defeat and thwart terrorism. As Senator Wong knows, Australia and Britain are both members of the Five Eyes group of nations, the closest intelligence partnership in the world. Through the Five Eyes arrangements we share intelligence. I can tell the Senate that that intelligence sharing arrangement has been responsible for alerting Australian authorities to, and preventing, terrorist strikes at home. Our agencies and our police forces operate very closely together. They are close collaborators. There are officers of Australian police and agencies located with British agencies, and the reverse is true as well.