Espionage, foreign interference and Australia’s national security laws

How do we balance effective national security laws with protecting individual rights and democratic freedoms?

Where is the line between legitimate foreign influence and foreign interference?

How well do Australia’s espionage laws protect journalism and political discourse?

How should Australia’s terrorism laws respond to a threat environment increasingly involving children and different forms of violent extremism?

In this episode, Sharryn Parker speaks with Jake Blight – Australia’s Independent National Security Legislation Monitor –about whether Australia’s national security laws are keeping pace with the changing nature of espionage, foreign interference and terrorism.

Jake Blight is Australia’s Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM).

Sharryn Parker is Senior Policy Advisor at NSC, on secondment from the Department of Defence.

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Show notes:

· NSC academic programs – find out more

· Launching the review of the definition of a ‘terrorist act’

· The monitor's lens: the Secrecy Review and insights from the INSLM