Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

As a government we have taken action to protect Australia and Australia's institutions from foreign interference. Protecting our election processes is vital. To further strengthen our political system against interference, in the lead-up to the last election, we established the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce, a cross-government task force. The task force was led by the Australian Electoral Commission and the Department of Finance and coordinated closely with Australian security and law enforcement agencies. The Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce agencies did not identify foreign interference that undermined the integrity of the 2019 federal election. We, of course, must be vigilant. We need to ensure that we protect Australians and our institutions from inappropriate foreign interference. The government has taken and is taking action.