Kerri Hartland will become the first female director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in February

A former senior public servant who most recently was overseeing the reform of Parliament’s workplace culture has been named the new head of Australia’s foreign spy agency.

Kerri Hartland will become the first female director-general of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in February, in the Albanese government’s first appointment of a chief…