After receiving advice from intelligence and security agencies, the attorney-general Mark Dreyfus mandated a ban on the app on government devices that will be instituted “as soon as practicable”.
It said exemptions would only be granted on a case-by-case basis with appropriate security mitigations in place.
Australia is part of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing group, which also includes the US, Canada, Britain and New Zealand.
The UK government imposed a similar ban on the social media platform last month after the app came under increasing scrutiny over its handling of user data.
Several public administrations raised concerns over the possibility that TikTok's owners ByteDance will be asked to share its data with the Chinese government, undermining Western security interests.
Bytedance has long maintained that it does not share data with the Chinese government and it is carrying out a project to store US user data in Texas, which it says...