It is “disturbing” the defence ministry didn’t know hundreds of Chinese cameras have been used on Australian defence bases, says Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson.
“Frankly their explanation as to why they’re a much greater number than they first thought was not very compelling,” Mr Paterson told Sky News host Sharri Markson.
“They basically said they have a lot of sites and they had to do a proper physical audit to check all their sites. “Really it’s quite disturbing that they didn’t know that they had been buying hundreds of these cameras and installing them across defence sites.”
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