The ACIC reform package is an essential step in modernising and strengthening Australia’s response to serious and organised crime. It re-positions the ACIC with the intelligence functions and powers it requires to deliver its role as Australia’s national criminal intelligence agency.
I am here today as both the Director of the AIC and the CEO of the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, and the theme of this year’s conference, transnational serious and organised crime, is one that both agencies contemplate daily.
I am pleased to appear before the Committee today for the examination of the ACIC’s 2024–25 Annual Report.
Today, I am here to discuss something that affects almost every Australian – often in ways that are hidden, underestimated or misunderstood – serious and organised crime.
Thank you Sabra. Minister Dutton, members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for attending.