Europe considering adopting Australia?s foreign interference laws to counter China - Sydney Morning Herald

The FITS scheme, which came into force in 2018, has been widely credited as being world-leading but has also been criticised by national security experts for casting its net too wide and forcing former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull to register for speaking at public forums.

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) is currently reviewing the scheme and will consider whether to better target the laws to capture more harmful activity by countries such as China and Russia.

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