Major-power conflict 'no longer unimaginable', Australian intelligence review finds

Australia faces a world more volatile and dangerous than it has known for more than four decades, and "major-power conflict is no longer unimaginable", a review of the country's intelligence agencies has found. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, commissioned the review of the work of the 10 agencies that make up Australia's national intelligence community in September 2023. The report was handed to government in mid-2024 - before the US election in November, and the change in administration in Washington in January. But a declassified copy of the review was not released by the government until Friday morning. Even before…