James King
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Investigative journalism: national security and politics | Signal: jamesking.01
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Exclusive: The Albanese government and NSW Premier Minns have helped fund a Sydney Islamic centre, one of whose clerics preached alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader while his Hezbollah-linked affiliates vowed Israel would be “erased from the history books”.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Exclusive: The Albanese government and NSW Premier Minns have helped fund a Sydney Islamic centre, one of whose clerics preached alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader while his Hezbollah-linked affiliates vowed Israel would be “erased from the history books”.
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Exclusive: A leader of a Shia Islamic group that was praised by NSW Premier Chris Minns and his counter-terrorism minister is linked to two Iranian revolutionary networks – co-founded with Hamas and Hezbollah.
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August 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Exclusive: A leader of a Shia Islamic group that was praised by NSW Premier Chris Minns and his counter-terrorism minister is linked to two Iranian revolutionary networks – co-founded with Hamas and Hezbollah.
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Exclusive: A Sydney cleric who repeatedly praised Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian regime now accused of sponsoring young men to allegedly set an Australian synagogue ablaze was hand-picked by NSW Health as a trusted community voice.
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August 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Exclusive: A Sydney cleric who repeatedly praised Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian regime now accused of sponsoring young men to allegedly set an Australian synagogue ablaze was hand-picked by NSW Health as a trusted community voice.
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Exclusive: A Sydney cleric who repeatedly praised Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian regime now accused of sponsoring young men to allegedly set an Australian synagogue ablaze was hand-picked by NSW Health as a trusted community voice.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Exclusive: A Sydney cleric who repeatedly praised Hezbollah fighters and the Iranian regime now accused of sponsoring young men to allegedly set an Australian synagogue ablaze was hand-picked by NSW Health as a trusted community voice.
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Exclusive: The Liberal candidate for Bennelong opened a business dinner backed by an “overseas Chinese liaison station” — which was part of a global network bankrolled by the Chinese government.
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Embattled Liberal candidate under fire for alleged Beijing connections
Scott Yung opened an event co-funded by an organisation with ties to a global network bankrolled by the Chinese government.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Exclusive: The Liberal candidate for Bennelong opened a business dinner backed by an “overseas Chinese liaison station” — which was part of a global network bankrolled by the Chinese government.
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7news.com.au/news/embattl...
Exclusive: A NSW court has convicted and issued an arrest warrant for a man after a 7NEWS Australia investigation uncovered his years of allegedly exploiting men during sexual encounters at luxury hotels.
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Identity of ‘luxury hotel fraudster’ revealed as court hands down conviction
Dongqiao Li failed to appear in court to face fraud and identity offences.
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April 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Exclusive: A NSW court has convicted and issued an arrest warrant for a man after a 7NEWS Australia investigation uncovered his years of allegedly exploiting men during sexual encounters at luxury hotels.
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🤐 Senior Australian officials handling the nation’s top secret intelligence are using platforms actively surveilled by the Chinese Government for their most personal conversations. 7news.com.au/news/world/a...
Security officials share family schedules, intimate chats on app watched by Chinese government
‘This is mental. I’m almost incredulous. It defies common-sense.’
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March 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🤐 Senior Australian officials handling the nation’s top secret intelligence are using platforms actively surveilled by the Chinese Government for their most personal conversations. 7news.com.au/news/world/a...
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Australia banned TikTok on federal devices, but this story alleges Australian officials, including those with security clearances, based in China are using WeChat for personal communication. 😲 Seems odd considering much better options. 7news.com.au/news/world/a... #infosec #auspol #Australia
Security officials share family schedules, intimate chats on app watched by Chinese government
‘This is mental. I’m almost incredulous. It defies common-sense.’
7news.com.au
March 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Australia banned TikTok on federal devices, but this story alleges Australian officials, including those with security clearances, based in China are using WeChat for personal communication. 😲 Seems odd considering much better options. 7news.com.au/news/world/a... #infosec #auspol #Australia
Exclusive: Senior Australian officials handling the nation’s top secret intelligence are using platforms actively surveilled by the Chinese Government for their most personal conversations.
7news.com.au/news/world/a...
7news.com.au/news/world/a...
Security officials share family schedules, intimate chats on app watched by Chinese government
‘This is mental. I’m almost incredulous. It defies common-sense.’
7news.com.au
March 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Exclusive: Senior Australian officials handling the nation’s top secret intelligence are using platforms actively surveilled by the Chinese Government for their most personal conversations.
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Exclusive: Police deemed Avalon Airport a high terrorism risk and had a multimillion-dollar land lease there specifically for special operations training. When a 17-year-old allegedly boarded a plane with a loaded shotgun, police were nowhere to be seen.
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7news.com.au/news/226-mil...
The $22M reason police should have been there when an armed teen allegedly stormed a plane
When the security crisis unfolded on Thursday afternoon, local police from Lara - nine kilometres away - were the ones that responded.
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March 8, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Exclusive: Police deemed Avalon Airport a high terrorism risk and had a multimillion-dollar land lease there specifically for special operations training. When a 17-year-old allegedly boarded a plane with a loaded shotgun, police were nowhere to be seen.
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Exclusive: A man wanted by police in two Australian states has been captured after a 7NEWS investigation uncovered his years of allegedly exploiting men during sexual encounters at luxury hotels.
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Accused ‘luxury hotel fraudster’ caught by cops after alleged exploiting men across Sydney
A man wanted by police in two Australian states has been captured after a 7NEWS investigation uncovered his years of alleged offending.
7news.com.au
March 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Exclusive: A man wanted by police in two Australian states has been captured after a 7NEWS investigation uncovered his years of allegedly exploiting men during sexual encounters at luxury hotels.
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7news.com.au/news/accused...
Exclusive: A 23-year-old has been convicted after threatening to kill a stranger during an armed gay hate crime beside Oxford Street. 7NEWS has obtained footage of the attack.
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Violent gay hate crime rocks Oxford Street: ‘I’ll kill you, I’ll happily bash you’
The man convicted of the attack has since spoken out, admitting: ‘I regret it’
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February 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Exclusive: A 23-year-old has been convicted after threatening to kill a stranger during an armed gay hate crime beside Oxford Street. 7NEWS has obtained footage of the attack.
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7news.com.au/news/violent...
Exclusive: The counter terrorism investigation into an explosives-ridden caravan in Dural has spread beyond NSW.
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Another state caught up in counterterrorism ‘mass casualty’ investigation
Several insiders say the investigation into a caravan found laden with explosives has now stretched beyond just Sydney.
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February 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Exclusive: The counter terrorism investigation into an explosives-ridden caravan in Dural has spread beyond NSW.
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7NEWS: Internal NSW Police documents reveal a youth gang accused of gay hate crimes has allegedly been bashing men across Sydney without prior contact since August. Some, not all, are charged and face firearm and knife offences. They are on bail. 7news.com.au/news/southwe...
Sydney high school allegedly at the centre of hate crime investigation
An investigation by 7NEWS.com.au can reveal police have identified at least eight members of the teen gang, while at least six attacks are in the spotlight.
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December 19, 2024 at 3:58 AM
7NEWS: Internal NSW Police documents reveal a youth gang accused of gay hate crimes has allegedly been bashing men across Sydney without prior contact since August. Some, not all, are charged and face firearm and knife offences. They are on bail. 7news.com.au/news/southwe...
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Accused Russian spy Kira Korolev — once celebrated by Australia's Defense Force as a model soldier & whose Australian security clearance got her top secret intel — was secretly employed by RusBITech, a high-tech corp whose OS powers Russia’s military.
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Accused spy’s links to Russian war machine revealed
Celebrated by the Australian Army as a model soldier, Kira Korolev was secretly employed by a Kremlin-backed war machine, according to internal Russian documents obtained by The Nightly.
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August 14, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Accused Russian spy Kira Korolev — once celebrated by Australia's Defense Force as a model soldier & whose Australian security clearance got her top secret intel — was secretly employed by RusBITech, a high-tech corp whose OS powers Russia’s military.
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This article attributes the xz attack to a Chinese hacker who texted about it, including claiming that they have at least one other open source bug.
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Chinese hacker gloats at targeting Aussie intel agencies
A Chinese citizen understood to be the son of a senior Chinese Government official has claimed to be the architect of a multi-year infiltration operation that infected software used by Australia’s age...
thenightly.com.au
May 10, 2024 at 11:59 AM
This article attributes the xz attack to a Chinese hacker who texted about it, including claiming that they have at least one other open source bug.
thenightly.com.au/world/chines...
thenightly.com.au/world/chines...
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Messages between Chinese hackers show Australian Strategic Policy Institute is a target – The Nightly
‘MOTHERF***ER!’: Texts reveal how Chinese hackers target Oz
Chinese spies have identified an Australian research institute as a priority target in their cyber-attack operations, with The Nightly able to confirm messages about our nation. WARNING: COARSE LANGUA...
thenightly.com.au
April 11, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Messages between Chinese hackers show Australian Strategic Policy Institute is a target – The Nightly
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"a well-known cafe located next door to Australia’s lead spy agency, the Office of National Intelligence in the heart of Canberra...was co-owned by a woman whose husband is a senior official in both a Chinese parliament and a united front group."
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March 13, 2024 at 10:18 AM
"a well-known cafe located next door to Australia’s lead spy agency, the Office of National Intelligence in the heart of Canberra...was co-owned by a woman whose husband is a senior official in both a Chinese parliament and a united front group."
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