ASIO’s foreign interference warning ‘likely to be about China’

Prime Minister Scott Morrison refused calls to name China as one of the most likely culprits behind the rise in foreign interference, saying “we deal with foreign interference in all its forms wherever it comes from”. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation revealed this week foreign interference was at an all-time high more overseas agents operating in the country than at the height of the Cold War. Centre Alliance Senator Rex Patrick said he had “one issue” with the government refusing to "call out the state actor". “It is likely to be China, I don’t think anyone would be surprised by that and the government should simply state that that is the case” he said. ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess also singled out the threat of right-wing extremism in Australia as “real” and “growing”. Image: Getty

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