Editing Office of National Assessments (section)

===Media reporting===
Although not a secret organisation, ONA usually attracts little attention. However, a striking exception occurred in 2001 when Prime Minister [[John Howard]] publicly relied upon an ONA assessment to support his claims about asylum seekers on the [[MV Tampa|MV ''Tampa'']], in an incident which became known as the "[[Tampa affair]]". The ONA assessment was later leaked to the public in its entirety, showing that the assessment was ultimately based on nothing more than [[news release|press releases]] from various government ministers.

In 2003, in the lead-up to the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]], an ONA intelligence officer named [[Andrew Wilkie]] resigned from the agency, citing ethical concerns in relation to selective and exaggerated use of intelligence by the Australian Government on the matter of [[Iraq and weapons of mass destruction]].