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Australia’s domestic spy chief has revealed a foreign regime recruited a former lawmaker as part of a plan to access classified information via high profile figures, including a member of a prime minister’s family.
Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, warned that the threat of foreign interference was at its highest levels yet, according to his annual threat assessment delivered in Canberra.