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At least three nations 'willing to kill' on Australian soil, spy chief says (www.abc.net.au)

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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation director-general Mike Burgess used the 2025 Lowy Lecture to reveal how the nation was facing an unprecedented number of threats to social cohesion, including Russian trolls, neo-Nazis, Islamists, extreme anti-Israel activists and hostile state actors.

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While Mr Burgess would not identify which countries were capable of carrying out a domestic assassination plot, he said they were effectively "on notice".

Asked why he did not mention Beijing specifically in his speech as he did in previous appearances, Mr Burgess quipped: "How do you know I wasn't talking about things China did in my remarks today?"

"[My] second response is, we all spy on each other, but we don't conduct wholesale intellectual property theft. We don't actually interfere in political systems and we don't undertake high-harm activity."

Mr Burgess went on to say he found it strange that when he had previously publicly identified China, Beijing's representatives had often complained to numerous members of government but never to him directly.

"[I] will continue to call them out when I need to," he said.

"This evening I didn't, primarily because I was talking about things that tear at our social fabric. And at the extreme end of that, that isn't China, although we do have some concerns there too."

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[–] randomname@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an addition:

Mr. Burgess also criticizes China for IP theft and political meddling

... “We all spy on each other, but we don’t conduct wholesale intellectual property theft. We don’t actually interfere with political systems and we don’t undertake high-harm activity,” Burgess told the Lowy Institute international policy think tank in Sydney ...

[–] stonkage@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Timor-Leste has entered the chat.

This reads like yeah we all spy on each but trust us bro we only do ethical spying