Australian intelligence agency’s
Social Media debut receives mixed reaction as Asio pushes for expanded powers
The first words ever heard on
Australian TV were delivered on 16 September, 1956, in the peculiarly English twang of the time: “Good evening, and welcome to television.” The first telephone call, according to its (admittedly disputed) inventor Alexander Graham Bell were “Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you.”
On Monday, the first words of Australia’s domestic spying agency Asio, as it launched its first-ever
Twitter account, were a joke about it supposedly mass surveilling its own people.