'Traitor': Tanya Plibersek uncompromising on former politician sending secrets overseas

Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has labelled the former politician mentioned by ASIO in their espionage report as a “traitor”. “Anybody who works with foreign agents of influence to pass on information to a foreign government is a traitor,” she told Sky News Australia. “We live in a world where foreign agents of influence are going after information valuable to their own governments that could be detrimental to Australia. “If someone is reaching out the hand of friendship you’ve got to sometimes wonder why – of course there have been times where I have been suspicious of people’s motives and I have shut it down. “Kept my distance and, at times, I have reported approaches to ASIO.”