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• The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has publicly tabled an “awareness” of various attempts to compromise the sector.
• On the contrary, Australia’s flexible and proportionate response to the threat of foreign interference manages the risks without hampering the international collaboration that is essential to research in the 21st century.

Laggards or leaders?

• In a submission to a parliamentary inquiry in late 2020, ASIO contended that the research sector does not face a unique level of risk.
• Australia is generally ahead of the curve when it comes to identifying and managing this risk.

A changing landscape

• He said they had asked directly whether there was “any hard evidence” that foreign interference in universities was happening.
• The landscape has changed sharply since then.

A collaborative taskforce

• In 2019, the Universities Foreign Interference Taskforce was set up as a collaboration between government agencies and research institutions.
• The taskforce has crafted best-practice guidelines for managing the risks.
• Two months later, in another Estimates hearing, he commended universities for having been “very cooperative and collaborative working with government”.

A proportionate response

• The report “confirmed an understanding of the threats posed by foreign interference, and progress in implementing advice in the Guidelines”.
• The core principle behind the guidelines was to take “a sensible approach that is proportionate to risk”.

Essential collaborations

• What’s more, it may well have stunted Australia’s capacity for innovation in the process.
• They should not get in the way of the international collaboration that is essential for research institutions to perform their role.
• In many sectors where Australia has grand ambitions, such as the extraction and processing of critical minerals, China is the technology leader.

James Laurenceson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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