Mike Burgess

Some spies pretend to be journalists themselves, while others cultivate legitimate journalists in the hope they will gain access to classified information.

What is the point of a National Security Committee that doesn’t regularly listen to the heads of its principal security agencies?

Why the move now to remove Australia’s spy chiefs from the peak intelligence body?

‘There is an active spy or has been within our government, and what we do know is that China is behind it,’ said former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce.

This follows ASIO revelations that a former politician sold out the country to advance the interests of a foreign regime. The MP was not named.

ASIO would not name the country, but revealed an ‘A-team’ of spies actively recruited locals to spy for a foreign regime.

Beijing has been accused of intellectual property theft—on a sophisticated scale—“well beyond traditional espionage.”