The Australian Federal Police made raids to disrupt a suspected Chinese state-backed foreign interference plot to find my address and harm me.

I've been sitting on this information for ten months but can only speak about it publicly now.

I was called into the Australian Federal Police office in Newstead Brisbane at 12 PM on August 15, 2023. Three AFP officers informed me that there was an ongoing investigation into foreign interference that had unearthed an attempt by agents of foreign interference to find my address and where I live as part of an effort to harm me.

The AFP told me that they had taken unidentified measures to disrupt this attempt to harm me and that they had concluded that were was no ongoing threat to my safety. They made raids on an individual - search warrants were issued and searches took place but no arrests took place.

They would not tell me the name of the individual they raided. They would not tell me what city the man lived in and they would not tell me the year the raid took place, nor would they confirm to me that this was related to the Chinese Communist Party. However, I subsequently learned that another prominent Australian critic of the Chinese government Vicky Xu @.veryvickyxu was also informed by the AFP in the same month - August 2023 - that she had been targeted in the same way. Multiple CCP critics in Australia seem to have been targeted in a systematic way that could only indicate a Chinese state backed operation.

The Australian Federal Police forbid me from telling anybody about this information. They told me I could not tell my lawyer and could not tell my family who I live with.

I agonised over disclosing this information to the public but ten months have now passed with no arrests. I believe the Australian public has a right to know that the Chinese state is actively trying to harm Australian citizens who criticise the Chinese Communist Party.

I think it represents a significant escalation in Chinese Communist Party foreign interference operations in Australia. I do not know what would have happened to me had the Australian government not disrupted the plot.