A Labor parliamentarian who, it is revealed, has links to a foreign power that attempts to retrieve information on Australia’s vulnerabilities and most important security secrets.

No, not Sam Dastyari in 2017, it’s the revelations brought about the Petrov Commission in the 1940s. Professor Des Ball, writing in The Australian in 2011, said ‘In the course of researching …Soviet intelligence operations… I became persuaded that H.V.