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“Australia has never faced so many different threats at scale at once,” he said. Warning that intolerance is rising and anti-authority beliefs proliferating, Burgess said: “There are multiple, cascading and intersecting threats to our social cohesion, fuelled by three distinct but connected cohorts: the aggrieved, the opportunistic and the cunning.” Burgess said that national security and law enforcement agencies were facing “a domestic security environment with an unprecedented number of challenges, and an unprecedented cumulative level of potential harm”. ASIO has said since 2022 that foreign interference and espionage, rather than terrorism, is the nation’s principal national security threat.
