Foreign spies could benefit from 'secret' national security trials becoming more public: Mike Burgess

Sarah Basford Canales
Updated June 9 2021 - 5:13pm, first published 1:30pm
ASIO's director-general Mike Burgess warned national security trials would attract foreign spies if laws were changed to allow for more openness. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
ASIO's director-general Mike Burgess warned national security trials would attract foreign spies if laws were changed to allow for more openness. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Foreign spies would gain a wealth of information if details of some secret trials relating to national security breaches were made more public, Australia's domestic spy agency has warned.

Sarah Basford Canales

Sarah Basford Canales

Politics and public sector reporter

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