National Security was also blown up in the News Corp media when the US was considering banning Tik Tok because of its connections to the Chinese Government. Foreign Affairs Shadow spokesman James Paterson was reported widely claiming ominous national security consequences with respect to election interference if Australia did not follow suit.

It did not occur to anyone in the mainstream media, it seems, that the ever-present threat to Australia’s national security on the matter of election interference has for decades been the dominance in Australia of the foreign owned News Corp by the American Rupert Murdoch.

Source: Is Peter Dutton or News Corp leading the Coalition? – Pearls and Irritations