After the ASIO spy boss spilled the beans, a giant game of Cluedo broke out in the halls of democracy

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"My boy, being a top spook is not compatible with being a media tart," former ASIO director-general David Irvine is reported once to have responded jovially to a question from a journalist. And indeed, the "top spook" — one of very few ASIO employees who are allowed to be named in public — is by necessity a behind-the-scenes role most of the time. Irvine was a true Renaissance man. Charming, witty and erudite, he was grieved by many when he died in 2022 and left behind two quite fascinating books he wrote on the subject of Javanese puppetry as a...