The Five Eyes (FVEY) — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US — is the intelligence-sharing alliance at the heart of Australia's National Intelligence Community. Australia's contribution to the UKUSA arrangements is substantial relative to its size, historically anchored in geography.
Australian facilities
- Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (near Alice Springs) — joint US–Australia satellite intelligence ground station
- Kojarena (WA) — signals intelligence facility
- Shoal Bay (NT) — signals intelligence facility
- Facilities elsewhere
The dependence trade-off
Access to enormous partner product in exchange for hosting facilities and accepting some dependence has been a recurring topic in Australian strategic debate since Des Ball's work in the 1980s. The relationship shapes the NIC's coverage choices: the community's small size forces heavy reliance on these partnerships (National Intelligence Community).
Related
- National Intelligence Community — the enterprise the alliance underpins
- ASD Project Redspice — ASD is Australia's SIGINT leg of the arrangement