Asial Security Insider

In this episode, we speak with Chris Delaney, ASIAL Industrial Relations Advisor and Peter Strong, CEO, COSBOA (Council of Small Business Organisations Australia), about the importance of ethical procurement practices when procuring security services. What are the key ingredients to ethical procurement practices? Do we have the right balance? What role should government play? What are the issues faced by small business when it comes to procurement? What are the penalties for non-compliance and how do we improvement procurement practices?

In this, the first episode of a new Podcast series from the Australia Security Industry Association Limited (ASIAL), we speak with Dr Anthony Bergin, Senior Analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and Don Williams, thought leader and independent security consultant. Anthony and Don are co-author's of a recently released paper titled Safety In Numbers, which looks at the role of private security in Australia's counter terrorism arrangements. Joining the podcast we also have Bryan de Caires, Chief Executive Officer of ASIAL and John Bigelow of Security Solutions.