On November 4, ASIO director-general Mike Burgess used the 2025 Lowy Lecture to warn about the "realistic possibility" of foreign-ordered assassinations in Australia, with ASIO assessing at least three nations as "willing and capable" of conducting lethal targeting here, possibly using "criminal cut-outs" to obscure involvement.

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Iran was the primary concern in the latter context. (The unnamed trio is likely Iran, Russia and China - although India is also a possibility.)

Historically, Australia has been remarkably insulated from the extraterritorial violence that plagues other nation

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