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Australia’s top intelligence official warned Tuesday that at least three foreign governments are “willing and capable” of attempting assassinations on Australian soil, marking what he described as an unprecedented threat environment. Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Director-General Mike Burgess, delivering the 2025 Lowy Lecture, said ASIO assesses there is a “realistic possibility” a foreign regime will attempt to kill a perceived dissident in Australia, potentially using criminal intermediaries to conceal state involvement.
Burgess said Australia has never faced “so many different threats” simultaneously, with the nation’s social cohesion “under siege” from extremist groups and hostile foreign regimes. The warning follows revelations in August that Iran directed at least two antisemitic arson attacks in Australia using a “complex web of cut outs.” The ASIO chief also disclosed his agency intercepted a foreign intelligence operation attempting to recruit Australians to sell information about the AUKUS security pact and critical minerals, with ASIO officers confronting the foreign spies directly to warn them “Australians were off limits.”
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