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foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic

Home Affairs Minister warns foreign interference is worsening and autocracies are targeting opponents in Australia

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil says foreign authoritarian regimes are monitoring and intimidating political opponents in Australia.

Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil has declared the government will bring foreign interference campaigns in Australia "into the light" by publicly naming the countries responsible for them.

Ms O'Neil also revealed that late last year ASIO disrupted an Iranian government operation in Australia targeting an Iranian-Australian connected to protests over the death of a woman in Tehran, who was accused of breaking the regime's hijab laws.

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