One senior figure captured the zeitgeist pithily. “I honestly think we’ve gone from not being a chance to a chance, but I wouldn’t put it higher than a chance. Scott Morrison is doing badly, but we are not yet doing well”.
It’s true some MPs are nervous and/or flat. There are differences about policy. Climate remains difficult, and there’s the government’s stage three tax cuts. On tax, the internal differences are significant, and will be hard to resolve to everyone’s satisfaction. Albanese and the shadow treasurer, Jim Chalmers, are conducting rolling consultations one-on-one in an effort to reach a landing point.
If intelligence agencies are to continue to hunt down and stop foreign agents committing nefarious acts, they will need the trust and support of the diaspora communities.
Chinese Australians are not to blame for the actions of CCP
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Herald’s international editor, Peter Hartcher, revealing the scale of interference in Australian politics and society by covert foreign agents contained two eye-catching figures. The first was the one that grabbed the headline: 500 recent incidents of interference and espionage had been identified by Australian intelligence.
The number of “known or suspected” incidents, revealed by a senior intelligence officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, pointed to the activities of several countries, but the Chinese Communist Party was said by officials to be by far the most active.
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