SYDNEY—Australia is creating a new intelligence task force to tackle the threat of foreign interference, as authorities grow more concerned that Beijing is meddling in domestic affairs.

The task force, to be led by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, or ASIO, will pool classified information from the country’s intelligence agencies including those involved in defense, cyber and financial crimes as well as the FBI-style Australian Federal Police.

“This is a boost to our ability to discover, track and disrupt foreign interference in Australia,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Monday. The goal is to increase collaboration between intelligence agencies and “strengthen Australia’s analysis of the sophisticated disinformation activities happening across the world, particularly against democratic processes and elections,” he said.

The government didn’t specifically name Beijing as the main target of its new task force. But the recently retired head of ASIO, Duncan Lewis, said last month the Chinese government is seeking to “take over” Australia’s political system through its “insidious” foreign-interference operations.

Beijing on Monday accused some Australian media organizations of “hyping up the so-called China espionage infiltration or interference.”