{"id":13876,"date":"2021-11-17T02:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2021-11-17T02:35:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T02:35:24","slug":"morrison-government-strengthens-australias-university-sector-to-withstand-foreign-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/17\/morrison-government-strengthens-australias-university-sector-to-withstand-foreign-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison government strengthens Australia\u2019s university sector to withstand foreign interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated guidelines to assist Australian universities strengthen their resilience to foreign interference risks, while protecting students, staff and research that contribute to Australia\u2019s prosperity, have been released today.<br \/>\nThe updated guidelines will better address how foreign interference threats have evolved since the initial guidelines were released in 2019, and will assist universities to better identify and respond to the risk of foreign interference.<br \/>\nMinister for Home Affairs Karen Andrews said espionage and foreign interference posed a challenge to Australia\u2019s democracy, but that the Morrison Government would continue to protect Australia\u2019s institutions, including our universities.<br \/>\n\u201cThese updated guidelines are more important than ever \u2013 with international students set to return to many Australian jurisdictions soon, we need to ensure our University campuses embody the free, open, transparent debate that is so vital to an Australian education, and to our way of life,\u201d Minister Andrews said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe guidelines will protect universities, students and researchers from hostile foreign actors and intelligence services; who have been known to target sensitive research, muzzle debate, and intimidate foreign students.\u201d<br \/>\nMinister for Education and Youth Alan Tudge said the updated guidelines are more specific, measurable and will support greater consistency of actions to counter foreign interference across the university sector.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia is home to some of the world\u2019s leading academics who are producing world-class research. These guidelines will ensure our researchers are protected,\u201d Minister Tudge said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have seen that Australian universities are a target for foreign interference with foreign actors using sophisticated and deceptive means to steal Australian research and intellectual property.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison Government takes research integrity very seriously and will continue to prevent efforts to steal information and interfere in our universities.\u201d<br \/>\nMore information is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dese.gov.au\/guidelines-counter-foreign-interference-australian-university-sector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.dese.gov.au\/guidelines-counter-foreign-interference-australian-university-sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated guidelines to assist Australian universities strengthen their resilience to foreign interference risks, while protecting students, staff and research that contribute to Australia\u2019s prosperity, have been released today. The updated guidelines will better address how foreign interference threats have evolved since the initial guidelines were released in 2019, and will assist universities to better identify &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/17\/morrison-government-strengthens-australias-university-sector-to-withstand-foreign-interference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Morrison government strengthens Australia\u2019s university sector to withstand foreign interference&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}