The Australian Government is on a recruitment drive.

See: www.asio.gov.au/employment/io

But buyer beware if you’re looking for an intellectually challenging career of national importance.

Government power brokers could manipulate you, ruin your career, send you to jail or — at worst — place your life in jeopardy, if it suits their purposes.

Before you act on your vocation, make yourself familiar with the careers of Valerie Plume (CIA / USA) and — on the domestic front — Andrew Wilkie, Lance Collins and Warren Reed, to name but a few sacrificial lambs of recent history.

In the above cases, there is a common thread.

Governments directed their most important public service to provide faith-based proofs of their ideology, not give good head.