In a speech to the National Security College at the Australian National University, Clare O'Neil reveals ASIO disrupted a foreign government operation to target dual citizen political dissidents, as she warns the government will name countries behind interference campaigns.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says foreign authoritarian regimes are monitoring and intimidating political opponents in Australia.abc.net.
"I'm pleased to say our agencies were onto it like a shot. ASIO tracked the operation and shut it down immediately," she told the told the National Security College at the Australian National University in a speech on Tuesday morning. "To those states who operate in the shadows, I have a simple message: we are watching you," she said.She took particular aim at authoritarian and hostile regimes targeting diaspora groups in Australia.Australian authorities have become increasingly concerned about the way a number of foreign regimes — including China, Iran, Rwanda and Cambodia – are intimidating and monitoring political opponents in Australia.
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