Michael Coole

The Australian security continuum: National and corporate security gaps from a surveillance language perspective

This chapter presents the concept of surveillance as embedded into the Australian security continuum, arguing there are still significant and challenging gaps in surveillance capabilities and ultimately security. To demonstrate such a security continuum, along with its gaps in efficacy, this chapter draws on variations in the language of surveillance (or concept) to highlight a disconnection across cultural discourses and ultimately states of security. The language of surveillance provides the opportunity to highlight the changing views, needs and applications for the many security continuum actors in the surveillance discourse.