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ASIO boss says China is the cyber 'principal concern' for Australia
By Tom Lowrey
By Tom Lowrey
ASIO boss Mike Burgess has warned of efforts from China to hack Australia's major power and telecommunications networks, preparing to "turn them off should they need to".
The warnings echo warnings from the domestic spy chief last year that Chinese hackers were "probing critical infrastructure".
In comments made on a podcast with broadcaster Neil Mitchell, Burgess said the cyber-sabotage risk to Australia is very real
"Nation-states hacking power and telco networks preparing for the day that they can turn them off should they need to," he said.
"Now be very clear about that — that's not going to happen any time soon, but in a time of conflict, nation states are preparing to do that."
Burgess was then asked which country was responsible.
"I've spoken about this before publicly — China are preparing for this. But again, they're not going to do it any time soon," he said.
"China's the principal concern for Australia."
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ASIO boss says more should have been done to call out antisemitism
By Tom Lowrey
By Tom Lowrey
The head of Australia's domestic spy agency, ASIO, Mike Burgess, says more should have been done by politicians, the media and the broader public to address antisemitism in the wake of the October 7 terror attack.
The comments are similar to those made by former ASIO boss Dennis Richardson earlier this week, but the podcast was made before Richardson's speech.
In a podcast with broadcaster Neil Mitchell, Burgess said more needed to be done to prevent conflation of actions by the state of Israel with Australia's Jewish community.
"When those behaviours are not (met with) 'that's bull***t, that shouldn't happen', what's going on?" he said.
"That gave permission for that to continue, and that heat gave permission for violence."
But he said responsibility fell broadly, including upon himself.
"All of us should have stood up more. Maybe I could have shouted more," he said.
"Political leaders could have said this is not right. I mean, a couple of them did do that, but not many of them did. The media should have probably watched how it was reporting.
"By all means be critical of the state of Israel, but actually say, but we're not talking about Australians or people of Jewish faith."
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By Joshua Boscaini
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We're likely to hear more reaction about the government's overhaul of the migration system announced by Tony Burke yesterday.
And the PM is off to the United States today where he'll drop into Apple in California and head over to New York to lead Australia's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.
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