Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), warned that a foreign government might attempt to kill a dissident on Australian territory, and the majority of outlets carried his warning overnight.
In a speech to Sydney’s Lowy Institute think tank yesterday night, the head of ASIO stated that there was a “realistic possibility” that an attempt could be made and that the security services thought there were “at least three” countries that would be willing and able to carry out such a scheme.
Burgess also utilised the Lowy Lecture “to show how the country is facing an unprecedented number of threats to social cohesion, including hostile state actors, Islamists, neo-Nazis, Russian trolls, and extreme anti-Israel activists.” He also cautioned about how antagonistic foreign regimes may be.
