Australia will now name and shame countries that perpetrate acts of foreign interference, the Minister for Home Affairs, Clare O’Neil, has said after Australian spy agencies foiled an Iranian foreign interference plot.
Australia’s domestic intelligence agency ASIO identified foreign interference as one of the biggest threats the country currently faces.
“It’s time to bring foreign interference out of the shadows and into the light,” O’Neil said in a speech at the Australian National University on Feb. 14.
“Foreign interference is not hypothetical. It is not merely something that lies in our future. It is happening today, and we need to do more to tackle it.”…