Foreign interference can be hidden in plain sight. Here’s how countries use ‘sharp power’ in Australia

By Ihsan Yilmaz, Deputy Directory (Research Development), Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation & Research Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Deakin University
Ana-Maria Bliuc, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Dundee
John Betts, Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Nicholas Morieson, Research fellow, Deakin University

Last week, Australian authorities arrested a woman for foreign interference. The Chinese citizen and Canberra resident is just the third person ever charged under our foreign interference laws.

According to the Australian Federal Police, she was allegedly gathering information on, and may be involved in efforts to infiltrate, the Guan Yin Citta Buddhist association. The group is banned in China, where the government regards it as a dangerous cult.

Read complete article

~	Weapons: the film’s horror stems from moral disengagement – a psychologist explains

~	As Netanyahu moves toward full takeover of Gaza, Israel faces a crisis of international credibility

~	Podcast: Emma's heart is half in Jamaica and half in England

~	Why Gareth Ward’s challenge to the power to expel him from the NSW parliament failed

~	Have the Kurds turned away from the quest for an autonomous state?

~	Cambodia is vowing to ‘rid’ the country of scam compounds. But we’ve seen several still operating in the open

~	From ‘reef-friendly’ sunscreens to ‘sustainable’ super, greenwashing allegations are rife. Here’s how the claims stack up

~	What to say and how to help if someone close to you has attempted suicide

~	Spy novelist Stella Rimington, the first female head of MI5, was a ‘true trailblazer’

~	The Cambridge factor: how influential NZ schools hastened the demise of NCEA