ASIO is no more - an explanation

Day 2,715, 17:56 • Published in Australia Australia • by Mongoosier

Afternoon, fellow Aussies.

This has been a contentious subject and there’s enough bickering going on elsewhere to sate any fans of that sort of thing so I will try to keep this factual.

There will necessarily be some in the below that people find disagreeable but my intention here is not to start a fight, but to detail a de facto major change in Australian policy that some non-Senators will not be aware of.

I considered not publishing this but, there are enough people outside of Congress that may not be aware of the situation that I believe we need to discuss this.

And sorry if this bores you – if it does, cut down to the conclusions bit as you should probably read that.

Background

ASIO (aka the Department of Immigration) was set up to vet all citizenship (CS) applications. The process involved applicants completing a simple form stating their reasons for wanting to join Australia, list any references from their old country or AU, etc. etc. ASIO would then check out each applicant and either approve or reject their application.

The point of ASIO was to protect our shores from a political takeover and to stop multi accounts and trouble-makers from getting in.

Days of Dictatorship

When the Dictator arrived, ASIO played no part in making CS decisions.

There was instead, on occasion, some discussion at Congress level but all CS passes were handed out by the Dictator.

This is of course the game mechanics so to argue against that would be madness – those were the rules and that’s what happened.

Coup Revolution Time

Love it or hate it, the coup revobloodylution took place and was successful. The CP was returned into power and CS decisions returned to the hands of Senate.

Our CP, Rusty D, asked me to re-start ASIO so we could return to the tried and tested method of vetting applicants.

What happened next?

Like I say, I will stick to simple facts:

ASIO was reinstated on 15th April, this was announced by CP and Senators were told to use the ASIO process which was explained in the Congress thread.

Without going into a blow by blow account (although I can in anyone is having trouble sleeping and needs some dull reading material to help them out), 19 CS passes have been approved since that point.

Of these, 4 were ASIO approved and 15 were not ASIO approved; please note: not rejected – we were not given time to look into the applicants.

Of the 15 applications that were approved without ASIO, all 15 were approved by either a BS or BS affiliated Senator.

This despite repeated calls from me and more importantly from our elected CP for this to stop and for the rules to be observed.

Conclusions

Something like ASIO only works if all parties agree to uphold the rules. When one group goes against them, there seems little point in pretending a job exists to uphold the rules for the rest.

So, I can conclude as follows:

1. Australia now has a free for all CS policy whereby anyone that applies for CS can be accepted without reference to Congress, CP, or Cabinet – there is no vetting and no checks for any applicant. ASIO has been abolished.

2. The decision to change this rule and abolish ASIO was taken by one political bloc within Congress, the Varnishist International Party, without any consensus or discussion and without any vote taking place

Whether this is a good or bad thing, I’ll leave you to decide. Personally, it will give me more time to troll JT in the Senate thread so I'm probably ok with it.

Thank you Guag and JT for your help over the months.

Good luck Australia.