Overview
- Mike Burgess said there is a realistic possibility a foreign government will attempt to kill a perceived dissident in Australia, with at least three nations assessed as willing and capable.
- ASIO disclosed it disrupted a foreign intelligence effort that groomed Australians and arranged a covert meeting in a third country, where an ASIO officer confronted the visiting spies.
- Investigators uncovered links between Australian pro‑Russian influencers and an offshore media outlet that almost certainly takes direction from Russian intelligence.
- Burgess warned that social media algorithms and rapidly advancing AI are accelerating radicalisation and disinformation to new levels.
- He cited rising domestic disorder involving neo‑Nazis, Islamist group Hizb ut‑Tahrir and anti‑Israel activists, as NSW Police arrested 13 protesters at a Sydney defence expo hours before the speech.