Australia’s social cohesion is “eroding” amid a rise in antisemitic incidents, intolerance, political violence and misinformation, the country’s intelligence chief said Wednesday. The nation also faces “heightened levels of espionage and foreign interference” as it acquires nuclear-propelled submarines from the United States and United Kingdom under the AUKUS security pact,

One government attempted to trick a human rights advocate into traveling from Australia to a third country where plotters planned to injure or kill their target. ASIO intervened to prevent the travel.