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foreign affairs reporter Stephen Dziedzic

Spy chief suggests Chinese officials are increasingly feeding information to Australian agencies

ASIS chief Paul Symon says officials unhappy with closed societies were increasingly "willing to speak up and take risks". (Supplied: Peter Morris/Lowy Institute)

Australia's international spy chief has suggested a growing number of Chinese officials are feeding information to Australian intelligence agencies because they are unhappy with the Chinese Communist Party's increasingly authoritarian trajectory. 

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