Five Eyes intelligence partners will deepen cooperation on combatting foreign interference, threatening to jointly name and shame hostile nations for "coercive, deceptive and clandestine activities".

In a meeting on the Gold Coast this week, ministers representing the five security allies – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain and the United States – also called on tech companies to do more to contain harmful material on their platforms and allow law enforcement "targeted" access to encrypted data.

Amid heightened global attention on foreign interference and influence in domestic politics, ministers from each nation jointly condemned actions to "sow discord, manipulate public discourse, bias the development of policy, or disrupt markets".

Ministers representing the Five Eyes intelligence allies at meetings on the Gold Coast this week. Credit:Suuplied

"Foreign interference threatens a nation's sovereignty, values and national interests — it can limit or shape the polity's ability to make independent judgements, erode public confidence in our political and government institutions, and interfere with private-sector decision making," a joint communiqué read.