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ASIO's language shift on terrorism is a welcome acknowledgment of the power of words

  • Written by Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
ASIO's language shift on terrorism is a welcome acknowledgment of the power of wordsMick Tsikas/AAP

Words matter. And when you are the director-general of ASIO, and one of the few people in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation that can talk to the public about what you do at work without being in breach of the law, then your words really matter. To his credit, Mike Burgess has made it his mission to “to make...

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