Spy chief Nick Warner to lead new security agency

By Tom McIlroy
Updated December 1 2017 - 6:48pm, first published 6:45pm
In this photo provided by Malacanang Palace, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, right, and Australian Secret Intelligence Service Director-General Nicolas Peter "Nick" Warner pose with a fist bump during the latter's courtesy call on the president at Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. (Albert Alcain/Malacanang Palace via AP)
In this photo provided by Malacanang Palace, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, right, and Australian Secret Intelligence Service Director-General Nicolas Peter "Nick" Warner pose with a fist bump during the latter's courtesy call on the president at Malacanang Palace in Manila, Philippines, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. (Albert Alcain/Malacanang Palace via AP)
The Minister for Defence, Dr Brendan Nelson and the Commander of the Australian Joint Task Force, Brigadier Paul Symon (left), walk from a British EH101 Merlin helicopter on which they flew into the Al Muthanna Task Group base at Camp Smitty, in southern Iraq, Saturday, March 4, 2006. Dr Brendan Nelson and the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF), Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston visited Australian troops deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Catalyst. Operation Catalyst is the ADF??????s contribution to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Iraq. Operation Catalyst commenced on July 16, 2003, and currently comprises 1320 ADF personnel. (AAP Image/Defence) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
The Minister for Defence, Dr Brendan Nelson and the Commander of the Australian Joint Task Force, Brigadier Paul Symon (left), walk from a British EH101 Merlin helicopter on which they flew into the Al Muthanna Task Group base at Camp Smitty, in southern Iraq, Saturday, March 4, 2006. Dr Brendan Nelson and the Chief of the Defence Force (CDF), Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston visited Australian troops deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Catalyst. Operation Catalyst is the ADF??????s contribution to the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Iraq. Operation Catalyst commenced on July 16, 2003, and currently comprises 1320 ADF personnel. (AAP Image/Defence) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Australia's spy chief Nick Warner is set to lead the newly established Office of National Intelligence, part of the Coalition's powerful new Home Affairs portfolio.

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