FARA, treatment of non-state-owned commercial The essence of the Australian scheme lies in its enterprises, and the question of how to address creation of a public registry of a class of actors social media were also a focus of the consultations. [...] The latest statistics available indicate that called attention, in particular, to the fact that the between the coming into force of FITS in December activities of the United Front Work Department of the 2018 and the end of 2021, 95 individuals and entities Chinese Communist Party, a key international activist had registered (Attorney-General’s Department 2021, and propaganda arm of the Chinese go. [...] recommendations on the breadth of the Australian scheme, on gaps in the Australian coverage of The UK consultation paper raised the question foreign influence and on the question of a revamping of how best to define in law the threat posed by of Australia’s “country-agnostic” approach. [...] The UK scheme was clearly inspired by the The outcome of the process of consultations existing Australian and US models, and also by and further refinement of the UK scheme was a 2020 report from the Intelligence and Security incorporated into the National Security Act in July Committee on Russian threats. [...] Some of these → the challenge of a country-agnostic lessons can be applied during parliamentary debate approach and possible alternative models on Bill C-70, later in the application of proposed (as in the UK two-tier system); regulations under the act and further down the road in the statutory five-year review of the legislation.
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