Mike Burgess, the emblematic head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO, IO, 15/04/22), Australia's internal intelligence service, has survived the hand-over of power by Scott Morrison's Liberal-National coalition to Anthony Albanese's Labor Party (IO, 10/06/22). Albanese has decided to keep Burgess on for the time being to continue the battle he has been waging for the last five years to boost Australia's intelligence capacity against China, which has replaced terrorism as the