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Home affairs minister reveals incident included monitoring an individual’s home and extensively researching their family

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.

Australian spy agency’s chief tells Senate espionage and foreign interference ‘supplanted terrorism’ as principal security concern

ASIO head Mike Burgess says while he's aware of media reporting Chinese police operating clandestinely in Sydney, he hasn't seen evidence of such operations.

The Chinese “spy balloon” shot down over the United States has brought the seemingly strange methods of surveillance and espionage into news headlines. Balloons have long been used for espionage – and not just for surveillance, as appears to be the case with this one.

Recent murders of police officers at Wieambilla highlight need for action to protect community safety, Anthony Albanese says

Australia's security chief Mike Burgess will meet political leaders to outline the latest threats to the nation.

The national security agency planted covert operatives among the group to assess whether it posed a threat to the outback military facility, but one of the protesters says he always assumed there were spies in their midst anyway.

Unclear what action, if any, then defence minister Peter Dutton took at the time