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Paul Osborne

COVID pandemic fuels extremists: ASIO

Mike Burgess says more time spent online during the pandemic has sent radicalisation into overdrive. (AAP)

Australia's top spy agency says it looked at the security implications of a pandemic as far back as 2007.

ASIO boss Mike Burgess said in his annual threat assessment speech on Wednesday the finding from 15 years ago was a pandemic would see a rise in anti-government behaviour.

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