Home Affairs Minister speaks on FBI dinner

31 Jul 2025 • 10 min • EN
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Australia's top spy chief has revealed foreign espionage is costing the nation at least 12.5 billion dollars a year. During a speech in Adelaide last night, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess provided a detailed account of the scale of the threat of foreign interference. Including one example where foreign cyber spies stole nearly 2 billion dollars' worth of trade secrets and intellectual property from Australian companies and businesses last financial year. Mr Burgess is now calling for more to be done, warning the threat from espionage will only intensify.Guest: Tony Burke, Minister for Home AffairsProducer: Lexie Jeuniewic

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