The revelations of a woman’s foreign interference charge come just days after ASIO head Mike Burgess sounded the alarm that Australia was increasingly becoming an espionage target, costing the government more than $12 billion per year.
AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt said it was unclear how intelligence allegedly gathered on the Buddhist community could be used, but it was a reminder of the importance of vigilance and prevention.
“As the director-general of ASIO has been on public record a number of times, foreign interference, espionage and other forms of national security issues can arise in threats from various actors, but also in various forms,” he said.
“It’s unclear how that information can be used, so I won’t say anything further than that, which is why the imperative of not only the AFP, but ASIO as the lead for the counter foreign interference taskforce, is to identify and disrupt … foreign interference.”
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