Protect Australia from national security and criminal threats through effective national coordination, policy and strategy development, emergency management, and regional cooperation. Support a prosperous and united Australia through effective coordination and delivery of immigration and social cohesion policies and programmes. Advance a prosperous and secure Australia through trade and travel facilitation and modernisation, and effective customs, immigration, maritime and enforcement activities across the border continuum
To protect Australia from criminal threats through coordinating a strategic response and the collection, assessment and dissemination of intelligence and policing information.
Reduce criminal and national security threats to Australia’s collective economic and societal interests through cooperative national and international policing services, primarily focused on the prevention, detection, disruption, investigation and prosecution of criminal activity. A safe and secure environment through policing activities on behalf of the Australian Government. Safeguarding Australians and Australian interests through the delivery of policing services primarily focused on protective services, aviation policing and international missions.
Informed crime and justice policy and practice in Australia by undertaking, funding and disseminating policy-relevant research of national significance.
To protect Australia, its people and its interests from threats to security through intelligence collection, assessment and advice to Government.
The protection of the financial system from criminal abuse through actionable financial intelligence, risk-based regulation, and collaboration with domestic and international partners.
Ensure Australian law and principles of justice are upheld by thoroughly investigating any allegations made against Australian Defence Force personnel for evidential validity and to end vindictive witch hunts against our veterans.
We must be on our guard, at all times, to the possible threat of terrorism, in all its guises, whether that be home grown or overseas threats. We must always err on the side of caution and be proactive and not reactive. It is better to arrest an innocent man, than not, rather than run the risk of a bomb exploding. Highly trained personnel with proper resourcing will ensure that we maintain the high level of security in protecting our nation.
Conservatives do not like a big brother state; and government surveillance of the people is seen as an infringement of our civil liberties and rights. Surveillance should only be sanctioned where it is in the national interest and is necessary to prevent a crime or arrest someone
There is far too much regulation in Australia, especially in the finance sector. It is important that the finance sector is regulated to ensure best practice, but it is pointless having regulations if they are not going to be enforced. ASIC and APRA have both failed in their primary duties and yet this does not stop the senior executives from being paid $800,000 a year salary; and herein lies the problem, over paid executives. When you are paid a ridiculous amount, it ceases to be about the job and more about preserving your huge salary. The executive who is in fear of losing this lucrative income spends a lot of time making sure everything appears normal, even if it means not investigating complaints, so that the clear up rate can be fudged.
ASIC, APRA, AFCA, ICAC, IBAC and all other regulatory bodies to come under the control of the Home Affairs department. These regulatory bodies are in effect civil police, but their role is to act like the Police, to keep the law and order and to catch criminals. By making these bodies departments of the Home Affairs, they can be restructured to become efficient departments, where the department heads are paid a modest wage, but not exceeding $200,000 per annum.
The other thing to bear in mind is, if a person is willing to commit white collar crime, then they are just as likely to commit other crimes, so having the whole policing apparatus under one department will hopefully make the sharing of information more efficient resulting in more crimes being stopped and solved.
