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EXPLAINER: How espionage is costing Australia

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The country's intelligence agency is seeing Australians increasingly targeted by foreign actors, more aggressively than ever before. ASIO director-general, Mike Burgess, last night revealed for the first time, the ballooning cost of espionage against Australia. SBS Reporter Tys Occhiuzzi explains.
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