Former Turnbull security adviser auditing academicsâ links to China Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Some of Australiaâs top universities have called in a Chinese Communist Party expert to detect foreign interference risks, including auditing academics from at least one institution to see if they have secret secondary jobs. The universities of Sydney, New South Wales, Monash and Queensland have all engaged former journalist and government adviser John Garnaut through consultancy firm McGrathNicol in a move designed to reassure the federal government they are taking the issue seriously.