ABSTRACT
Harvey Barnett succeeded Ted Woodward in August 1981, thus overturning Whitlam’s and Chifley’s ideal of having a judge in charge of ASIO. Hope had already recommended against this principle with the comment that it would preclude an intelligence officer becoming Director-General and ‘making a career in ASIO’. He seemed to ignore the reality that various government departments have ‘outsiders’ appointed to heads of them and the same principle could apply to ASIO.1
