During debate in the upper house of Australia's bicameral parliament, Labor senator Penny Wong said "This legislation... declares that this Parliament will not allow interference in our elections or in our democratic processes." "We will not allow these to be subject to foreign interference, and...
Beijing has also take umbrage at Canberra's blocking of a recent agricultural deal, its barring of Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G network and legislation outlawing foreign interference in Australia's domestic politics. China has blocked billions of dollars worth of Australian exports...
Morrison said the legislation doesn't target China. “My biggest concern is Australia’s national sovereign interest,” he told reporters. Australia in 2018 passed sweeping national security laws that ban covert foreign interference in domestic politics. Beijing protested that the laws were pr...
China's top legislature will accelerate legislation relating to external affairs to oppose foreign sanctions and interference, according to a report. The annual work report of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) was submitted on Monday to the ongoing fourth...
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters Tuesday there are many things that need to be addressed, including a foreign agent registry, CSIS reform and the ongoing work of the foreign interference commission. He said legislation to create the registry would be coming soon. ...
“Interference by the People’s Republic of China is rife in Australia and includes a divide-and-conquer strategy…using universities to build its ‘discourse power’,” Professor Hamilton told the committee. “If certain agreements are inconsistent with or undermine Australia’s foreign policy, ...
the Director of Advocacy at Transparency International US, about the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), a new and groundbreaking piece of US federal legislation that makes it a crime for any foreign official to demand or accept a bribe from an American or American company, or from any pe...
regardless of the nature of the activity undertaken by or on behalf of the sovereign. The doctrine of absolute sovereign immunity is based on the sovereign equality of states and the principle of non-interference in other states' affairs. In practice, this means that no matter what a foreign ...
Minister Penny Wong said her government is "gravely concerned" by the sentences for Australian citizen Gordon Ng and the other activists. Wong said Australia has expressed strong objections to authorities in China and Hong Kong over the continuing broad application of national security legislation. ...
“with every tool at its disposal” before House members stand for re-election. House of Representatives will have the package of China-related legislation signed into law by the end of this year, including those to sanction Chinese military firms that provide material support to Russia and Iran...