00:00Taking a front-row seat, China's ambassador welcomed inside ASIO headquarters to hear
00:08from the country's spy chief.
00:12The Director-General beginning his annual address with a blunt warning.
00:16ASIO assesses we are likely to have more security surprises in the second half of the decade
00:22than we did in the first.
00:24A wave of anti-Semitic attacks across Australia continues to be closely monitored.
00:30I'm concerned these attacks have not yet plateaued.
00:32Politically motivated violence is raising the temperature of the security environment
00:35and making acts of terrorism more likely.
00:38Mike Burgess also revealing several recently thwarted foreign assassination plots here.
00:45ASIO investigations have identified at least three different countries plotting to physically
00:49harm people in Australia.
00:51We will not tolerate the surveillance, harassment or intimidation of anyone anywhere in Australia.
00:59There is a short list of obvious candidates for this kind of behaviour, malign states,
01:03authoritarian states that have an interest in harming our democracy and harming our citizens.
01:07With a federal election looming, the ASIO boss has also put certain nations on notice
01:13not to attempt any interference, revealing special teams have been formed with the Electoral
01:19Commission to protect the democratic contest.
01:22A message heard loud and clear last night by at least one diplomat.
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