8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (6)
#15974197 at 2022-03-30 03:18:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20202: Jamin Diggies Late Night Edition
Scott Morrison exposed for his corrupt history and lies by Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells in 10-minute speech
Scott Morrison's dirty laundry of lies and deception was summarised in a speech Liberal Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells gave in the Senate on Tuesday night (29/3/22) that is in the below video which is must watch. It was one of the best hit jobs you would ever want to see although Morrison is a huge target with his history of lies and deception.
In the video, Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells also unloads on other Liberals such as NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet, federal MP Alex Hawke and former federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock.
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells discussed Scott Morrison's sacking from Tourism Australia, his dodgy pre-selection in 2007 for the Sydney seat of Cook, Morrison's use of religion as a marketing tool etc. Below is the video:
Below are relevant links to articles regarding what was discussed in the video:
Article from April 2019: "Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his dirty deal with the Labor Party and Sam Dastyari" (Click here to read the article)
Article from June 2019 titled "Looks like PM Scott Morrison was sacked as Managing Director of Tourism Australia in 2006 because of fraud and theft" (Click here to read the article)
Article from November 2019: "Scott Morrison left Tourism New Zealand in similar circumstances to his sacking by Tourism Australia. Why?" (Click here to read the article)
Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells will still be in parliament until the 30th of June 2022 so I expect it will be a wild ride for her, and Australia, as there is no going back from what she said in her speech and she would know that. It would have been great if she had given the Same speech a long time ago but better late than never.
https://kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2022/03/29/scott-morrison-exposed-for-his-corrupt-history-and-lies-by-liberal-senator-concetta-fierravanti-wells-in-10-minute-speech/
#10160424 at 2020-08-02 14:08:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13001: The Morning after the Night Before Edition
Melbourne, Victoria - Daniel Andrews
Andrew's has significant ties to Chyna/CCP going back to 2013 prior to his election as premier in 2014.
Along the way lots of funds coming in from key Chinese nationals with strong ties to CCP.
Key notables:
Hong Lim - first details around 2013, then senior advisor to Andrews as the vice president from the ACPPRC.
Former Labor MP for Clayton and Clarinda.
Was a long-term adviser to the Australian Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China's (ACPPR)honorary board…. which a parliamentary inquiry has been told is a Communist Party "United Front" body pushing pro-Beijing views in Australia.
Tian Di - Middle man to Crown Casino and China high rollers/investors (Owner of Nine Dragons Club)
Arrested by China for crack down on foreign casino issues circumventing strict regulations in China.
Generous ALP donor
Huang Xiangmo - (Former president of ACPPRC), President of Yuhu Group (development company)
Linked to Ming Chai and Tian Di, Tom Zhou.
Former prime minister Malcom Turnbull stated he was 'an agent of a foreign country'.
According to documents first reported by the ABC, Huang has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Australia's two main political parties.
ASIO concern/warning of Xiangmo lead to Dastyari stepping down
In 2015, he donated $55,000 to have a "boardroom lunch" with Opposition Labor Party leader Bill Shorten.
A spokesman for Huang told the ABC the businessman had stopped making donations in 2016 and would not be commenting on the stories.
Mike Yang - (Andrews senior advisor on China when he was opposition leader), prior Vice-President of ACPPRC)
Close ties to Huang Xiangmo.
Strong CCP influence, believed to be the key connection between Andrews and Chinese govt.
Jean Dong - Chief Executive of Australia-China Belt and Road Initiative
First connected with Andrews via Mike Yang
Was MD of her company Spark Group which focused on Chinese investment in Australian agriculture and resources.
Attended a youth conference in China in 2014 with Mike Yang, both are well connected
Tasked with promoting BRI to Andrews, and her company provided consultation advice to and paid for by the Labor govt. Two tax-payer funded contracts for advising on China's global commercial play in 2017-2018 worth $36,850.
Details of this contract detail leak, lead Andrews administration to say it was an admin error, and lead to the first engagements not being published in 2017-2018 annual report, this hidden.
Guo Jing Chen - CBD Development group
Significant donor to Andrews/Labor party - payments made through Feb, May, June of 2016 totalling $51,176
Previously given donations to Hong Lim. Sponsored a major fundraiser prior to the 2014 election in support of Hong Lim
Travelled with Andrews to China despite no official invite (Same trip as with Mike Yang)
Linked also to donations to Gladys Liu
Mr Guo Jing's appearance with Victoria's Labor leader also occurred a year after a told a Chinese television documentary 'Australia would not survive' without Chinese migrants
Marty Mei - Special Advisor to Andrews (joined Andrews after 2014 election win, previously worked for Hong Lim) - his appointment came at Same time Huang Xiangmo was named honorary president of the Shenzehn association
"Special consultant" to the Shenzhen Association of Australia and Shenzhen business association of Australia, part of a network of Chinese Communist party's united front work department whilst in the role of Multicultural advisor to Andrews!
Later became Multicultural advisor and worked on belt and road deal secured significant $100,000 contribution from Jianping Fu in lead up to 2014 election (Isn't the limit $50k??). No other donation was noted to the Liberal party.
Travelled with Andrews to China in 2017 and 2018 for the first and second signings of the belt and road initiative.
Jianping Fu and others, associated with Hunan Business Association who have significant ties to the CCP United Front Department
Hunan Business Association linked to Ryan Ouyang, a major property and infrastructure developer in Melbourne through the Ouson Group, he became president of the Hunan Business Association in 2017, praised by the Chinese Ministry of commerce for his advice in navigating the Australian market.
https://morningmail.org/chinas-man-daniel-andrews/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5126419/Sam-Dastyari-denies-Chinese-phone-tap-tip-Xiangmo.html
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/premier-s-belt-and-road-adviser-helped-land-labor-donation-20200529-p54xoz.html
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/victorian-government-blocks-opposition-calls-for-scrutiny-of-pandemic-response-20200423-p54mo6.html
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/chinese-businesswoman-jean-dong-was-a-key-figure-in-victorias-controversial-trade-deal-with-ccp/news-story/084a72e06f1a2355af1c855ed5c59218
#8282282 at 2020-02-29 12:38:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10603: DDOS, Yeah, We Hatin! Edition
>>8282267
It wouldn't surprise me if the Chicoms helped a great deal to put Kevin Rudd into government
He loves the Chinese
They probably gave shit-loads of dirty cash to the Labor party & still do probably
Sam Dastyari: the Chinkys were grooming him to be a mole/spy
Bob Carr: ex Premier of NSW is in the pockets of the Chicoms as well
Then there is that Chinese woman in the Coalition, whose obvious loyalty is to China, I forget her name
the list is endless !!!!
#4357714 at 2018-12-18 10:24:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5554: Stand By For Digits Edition
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has raided the headquarters of the New South Wales Labor party. A source said investigators accessed computers at the building during the raid. Guardian Australia understands the raids relate to a Chinese Friends of Labor fundraising dinner held before the 2015 election.
In a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, a party spokesman said the investigation related to "historic" donations. An Icac spokeswoman said the commission would not comment on operational matters. Several figures from the NSW Labor Party have been linked to prominent Chinese political donors in recent years.
In 2017 former NSW general secretary and federal senator Sam Dastyari was forced to resign over his links to the Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo. Dastyari helped elevate upper house MP Ernest Wong into the parliament. Wong is a former Burwood councillor known for his close ties to the Chinese developer community and ability to raise funds. In June Fairfax Media reported that Australian security agencies believed Chinese government intelligence operatives had attempted to cultivate Wong.
https://archive.fo/PuR28#selection-1377.1-1377.59
Also have a pic of Downer wearing fishnets.
#4357640 at 2018-12-18 10:05:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5553: Wrassling Chaos, 302 Digs, Masons Edition
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has raided the headquarters of the New South Wales Labor party. A source said investigators accessed computers at the building during the raid. Guardian Australia understands the raids relate to a Chinese Friends of Labor fundraising dinner held before the 2015 election.
In a statement issued on Tuesday afternoon, a party spokesman said the investigation related to "historic" donations. An Icac spokeswoman said the commission would not comment on operational matters. Several figures from the NSW Labor Party have been linked to prominent Chinese political donors in recent years.
In 2017 former NSW general secretary and federal senator Sam Dastyari was forced to resign over his links to the Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo. Dastyari helped elevate upper house MP Ernest Wong into the parliament. Wong is a former Burwood councillor known for his close ties to the Chinese developer community and ability to raise funds. In June Fairfax Media reported that Australian security agencies believed Chinese government intelligence operatives had attempted to cultivate Wong.
https://archive.fo/PuR28#selection-1377.1-1377.59
#3579173 at 2018-10-24 00:20:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4541: I Like the Way You Think Edition
>>3579140
Part 2
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/foreign-spies-are-infiltrating-australia-with-unprecedented-espionage-and-interference-activities/news-story/37893eaff53164f054ba7c415139b91d
A LOWER THRESHOLD
The rules and state of play of espionage across the board have shifted dramatically, particularly in the past few years, experts say.
Dr John Coyne, head of the Border Security Program at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), said some regimes have been emboldened by the West's inaction.
"If I said to you a decade ago that the Russians would kill two of their citizens on UK soil, one with a chemical agent and the other using a radioactive agent, you'd think I was reading from the script of a James Bond film," Dr Coyne said.
"If I told you North Korea would poison one of its citizens in a major airport using a chemical agent, you'd think it wasn't possible."
Earlier this month, president of Interpol Meng Hongwei was detained by Communist Party authorities during a visit to Beijing. The Chinese national hasn't been heard from since and his wife now fears he is dead.
"If I'd raised that as a remote possibility a decade ago, you'd think I was crazy, just as you would if I told you the Saudis would kill one of their citizens in one of their embassies and chop him up into pieces.
"The thresholds have dropped significantly and we face a completely different threat environment."
He blames the slow international response to major, high-profile incidents for a growing confidence felt by certain regimes.
Prof Medcalf said states like Russia tended to favour short-term and highly disruptive acts while China was very carefully and strategic playing a "long game".
"A lot of it is about cultivating individuals, not for immediate use but to support China's interests in the long run," he said.
"Of course, that's quite difficult to detect or respond to because it's happening below the surface over a long period of time."
BUYING LONG-TERM FRIENDS
In May, Mr Lewis told the Senate that foreign states have maintained an interest in attempting to sway key figures in public and private life in Australia.
Their efforts often appear harmless and friendly, but could have significant consequences down the track, the ASIO chief warned.
"Foreign (individuals) covertly attempt to influence and shape the views of members of the Australian public, the Australian media, officials in the Australian government and members of the diaspora communities here in Australia," he said.
Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari was embroiled in two scandals involving dealings with a Chinese businessman who was linked to the Communist Party.
Mr Dastyari was sensationally forced to quit the shadow frontbench in 2016 when it was revealed Huang Xiangmo had paid some of his bills, as well as being a campaign donor.
Then in 2017, he left politics all together after revelations he told the man his phone was likely being tapped, including by US intelligence agencies.
Mr Dastyari has denied any deliberate wrongdoing.
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (14)
#20545573 at 2024-03-10 08:42:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
#34 - Part 23
Australian Politics and Society - Part 16
>>20493681 Former prime minister's son Alex Turnbull reveals contact with Chinese agents - Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's son Alex has revealed he was the target of suspected Chinese agents over an infrastructure project, revealing he immediately rejected the approach and reported it to spy agencies. Mr Turnbull has told news.com.au that while he did not definitively know if he was the family member ASIO chief Mike Burgess was referring to in his speech, his experience fits the sting outlined by the spy agency boss. Describing the approach as "brazen", the activist and investor said he was contacted around 2017 when his father was Prime Minister, and he was offered equity in a company. "It was just so brazen," Mr Turnbull told news.com.au. "My reaction was to express no interest and forward the details immediately to the authorities."
>>20493684 Video: Joe Hockey calls for ASIO boss to name 'traitor' who betrayed Australia - Former treasurer Joe Hockey has called on ASIO's Director General Mike Burgess to name the "traitor" ex-politician who betrayed Australia by working with an international spy network. Australia's spy chief delivered the agency's annual threat assessment on Wednesday night, including the shock details about the actions of an ex-politician. Mr Burgess did not name the country involved in recruiting the representative but said he had decided to declassify the news as a way of warning their operatives their cover was blown. "Of course he should say immediately who it is, not simply come out of the shadows, say this was a politician, then go back to the shadows and leave everyone else wondering who the hell it was," Mr Hockey told Sky News Australia.
>>20493700 'It's not me': Ernest Wong speaks out after spy agency claims - Former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong, who was found by ICAC to have engaged in corrupt conduct over Chinese donations, has flatly denied he is the MP at the centre of bombshell ASIO claims regarding a sting targeting a former prime minister's family. ASIO boss Mike Burgess revealed on Wednesday night that a mystery former Australian politician had "sold out their country, party and former colleagues" after being recruited by spies for a foreign regime". Revealing he's never been contacted by ASIO about the claim, Ernest Kwok Chung Wong, has told news.com.au that he knows nothing about the spy agency allegation and has never met with former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's son who believes he may have been a target. "No, never,'' Mr Wong said. "ASIO did contact me about five or six years ago, they did contact me for very general inquiries in regards to how the Chinese committee groups operated in Australia," he said.
>>20493719 Sam Dastyari denies he is the ex-politician singled out by ASIO boss - A former Labor senator whose political career was ended by a storm over his links to a Chinese businessman has categorically denied he is the mystery figure Australia's spy boss claims 'sold out their country'. Ex-NSW senator Sam Dastyari sensationally quit politics in 2017 amid intense scrutiny over his links to Chinese real estate developer and political donor Huang Xiangmo. Mr Dastyari, who has always insisted he is a patriotic Australian, was labelled a 'Peking schmuck' by the tabloids after it was revealed he accepted money from Chinese donors. Mr Dastyari refuted speculation that has erupted on social media in the hours since. He told Daily Mail Australia the incident had 'zero to do with me', and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing. 'I'm not jumping into any commentary,' he added.
>>20498472 Victorian Labor senator Linda White dies after taking leave over health issues - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his heart is "broken" by the news Victorian Labor senator Linda White has died after taking leave this month to deal with health issues. Senator White had a long career behind the scenes of the Labor Party before being elected to represent Victoria at the 2022 federal election. Mr Albanese said the state's Labor branch was hurting after having lost MP Peta Murphy just months ago. "To lose two women in their prime within three months of each other is beyond belief, is so sad," he said. "On behalf of the Australian government and the Labor family, I offer my deepest condolences to Linda's family and loved ones."
#20493719 at 2024-02-29 08:33:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
>>20493657
Sam Dastyari denies he is the ex-politician singled out by ASIO boss - as Malcolm Turnbull's son reveals how he was targeted by foreign spies
BRITTANY CHAIN - 29 February 2024
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A former Labor senator whose political career was ended by a storm over his links to a Chinese businessman has categorically denied he is the mystery figure Australia's spy boss claims 'sold out their country'.
Ex-NSW senator Sam Dastyari sensationally quit politics in 2017 amid intense scrutiny over his links to Chinese real estate developer and political donor Huang Xiangmo.
Mr Dastyari - who has always insisted he is a patriotic Australian - was labelled a 'Peking schmuck' by the tabloids after it was revealed he accepted money from Chinese donors.
He allowed Mr Huang to pay a $5,000 legal bill for him while he was an elected senator, and forwarded a $1,670 travel bill to a company with links to the Chinese government.
Mr Dastyari admitted meeting Mr Huang, but denied any wrongdoing in the meeting where he allegedly told Mr Huang his phones were being tapped.
In the years since Mr Dastyari resigned from Parliament, Mr Huang has been blocked from re-entering Australia and had both his Australian passport and permanent residency cancelled, on the recommendation of ASIO.
On Wednesday evening, ASIO chief Mike Burgess gave a landmark speech where he said a now-former, unnamed politician had allegedly 'sold out their country' to an overseas power.
'This politician sold out their country, party and former colleagues to advance the interests of the foreign regime,' Mr Burgess said.
He refused to name the person, only giving clues including that the person involved was a former politician, that the incident took place several years ago, and he doubted the unnamed politician would do it again.
Mr Dastyari refuted speculation that has erupted on social media in the hours since. He told Daily Mail Australia the incident had 'zero to do with me', and there is no suggestion of wrongdoing.
'I'm not jumping into any commentary,' he added.
It comes as Alex Turnbull, the son of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, revealed to news.com.au that he was targeted by suspected Chinese agents over an infrastructure project - and reported it to spy agencies.
His father was PM at the time. 'It was just so brazen,' he told the news website. He did not specify exactly which infrastructure project he was referring to in the interview.
New laws were only introduced in 2018 to combat foreign interference.
What else is known about the politician is that 'at one point, the former politician even proposed bringing a prime minister's family member into the spies' orbit,' Mr Burgess said.
'Fortunately that plot did not go ahead but other schemes did. Personally, I don't think they'll be stupid enough to repeat what they've done in the past, so problem neutralised, harm in some elements was done.'
The ASIO chief said the politician involved had cut ties with the foreign service and is not a national security risk, and added that foreign spies were posing as consultants, head-hunters, local government officials, academics and think tank researchers, claiming to be from fictional companies such as Data 31.'
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#20493671 at 2024-02-29 08:03:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
>>20493657
ASIO boss Mike Burgess won't bow to pressure to reveal which former politician 'sold out Australia'
The boss of Australia's spy agency has refused to unmask the identity of an ex-politician accused of selling out the nation.
Ellen Ransley and Eleanor Campbell - February 28, 2024
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The nation's top spy has called for calm, refusing to name names after dropping a bombshell that a former politician sold out Australia to foreign spies.
Mike Burgess used his annual threat assessment address on Wednesday night to reveal an ex-politician was recruited by a foreign intelligence service "several years ago" but declined to name them.
Former federal treasurer and ambassador to the US Joe Hockey said the claims had implicated hundreds of officials, and said Mr Burgess had a duty to every politician to reveal who it was.
"You can't make an allegation or a statement about someone being a traitor and then expect that no one will ask questions," Mr Hockey said on Wednesday.
Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari and former NSW state MP Ernest Wong both publicly denied they were the individual through media on Thursday, while former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's son Alex revealed he was the target of suspected agents.
Mr Burgess doubled down on his decision not to name names late on Thursday, saying the case was an "historic matter" and the individual was "no longer of security concern".
"In accordance with longstanding practice, ASIO will not publicly discuss individuals or provide operational details," he said in a statement.
Defence Minister Richard Marles had earlier argued that publicly revealing the name of the alleged traitor would not be beneficial.
"I am not aware of the specific facts which underpin the scenario that Mike Burgess has outlined," he said on Thursday.
"I respect the reasons why that is important to be kept confidential ... but I think it is also really important that this story be put out in the public domain, which is what Mike Burgess has done, because, you know, those of us engaged in public life, we need to be really vigilant."
Opposition leader Peter Dutton had earlier said the accused individual should be "outed and shamed".
"I haven't been told [who it is]. Mike Burgess is as good as they get, he's a great head of the ASIO and he's really a first class operator," Mr Dutton told 2GB.
"It's pretty rough to essentially besmirch former politicians when he's talking about one and the trouble is if he doesn't indicate the name then there's a cloud hanging over everybody else."
Opposition home affairs spokesperson James Paterson said he had a "fair idea" of who the spy was but refused to speculate publicly.
He agreed with Mr Marles that the accused politician shouldn't be outed but said the person should face serious legal consequences.
"I think it would be unfair to name someone publicly and you would obviously be running a very serious defamation risk if you do so," he told reporters on Thursday.
"I think it would be very powerful and important if someone has betrayed their country, particularly someone who has the honour of representing their country in the parliament, that they face legal consequences and very serious ones for that.
"But the reality is the laws weren't there when this conduct occurred. That makes it very difficult."
Later, Opposition foreign affairs spokesperson Simon Birmingham demanded that the Albanese government provide "as much clarity of possible" about the reported betrayal citing significant public interest in the matter.
"That public interest deserves to be addressed, as transparently as possible, and Home Affairs should step forward and provide that information, as much of it as possible," he said.
Mr Burgess had used a major address on Wednesday evening to reveal that a dedicated unit within a foreign spy service is targeting Australia.
He said the "A-team" - a spy network operating within a "particular foreign intelligence service" - had come to be one of the most significant threats the agency was fighting against, speaking about them publicly because "we want the A-team to know its cover is blown".
Mr Burgess said the A-team trawled professional networking sites looking for Australians with access to high-level security, defence and risk information.
Mr Burgess said the team used "false, anglicised personas", posing as consultants, headhunters, officials, academics and researchers from fictional companies to approach the targets.
He said they had tried to recruit students, academics, business people, police and public servants across all levels of government.
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#20359594 at 2024-02-05 08:42:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
>>20359589
2/2
The naturalised Australian citizen - once known as the "democracy peddler" to his huge Chinese language readership - is one of the most complicated consular cases ever dealt with by Canberra.
Before moving to Australia in 2000, Dr Yang worked for China's Ministry of State Security, the agency that detained him at Guangzhou. The spy agency functions as something like a hybrid of the CIA and FBI and has been given more resources and authority during the Xi era.
He later published a series of spy novels before completing a PhD at the University of Technology Sydney on the internet and China's potential to democratise.
Close friends have described him as an optimistic man who became deeply committed to transforming China after living in Hong Kong, the US and then Australia.
Nothing is clear about the ?Chinese party state's charges against him.
Some close observers of his case suspect he was the target of a retaliation campaign.
Weeks before his arrest, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation cancelled billionaire property tycoon Huang Xiangmo's Australian residency after he was the centre of a foreign interference scandal involving former Labor powerbroker Sam Dastyari.
Reports of ASIO's action - which infuriated Beijing - came out in February 2019, weeks after Yang was nabbed after arriving in Guangzhou from New York, where he had been based as a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
A similar dynamic appeared to be in play in August 2020 when Australian journalist Cheng Lei was detained in Beijing only weeks after ASIO raided Chinese state media employees in Sydney.
Sources close to Australian intelligence agencies have told The Australian they believe it was a warning about consequences of constraining the ability of China's intelligence system to operate in Australia.
Yang has always refused to make a forced confession and dared Beijing to make public the charges they had made against him.
"I want the Chinese government to open my case and publish it. To provide details to the world, the Australian government and the country," he said in a message to his friends and supporters released months after his trial in May 2021.
Yang became best known in the Chinese language internet for his personal essays, which advocated for political democratisation within China and the need for the rule of law.
In one essay, he urged his readers to respect Australia's democratic system after some Chinese university students harassed pro-Tibet protesters as the Olympic torch passed through Australia before the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.
"This is a mature democracy, where everyone has the right to express their opinions, not the tyranny of the majority over the minority," he wrote.
In another statement to his supporters, Dr Yang said his ordeal had not changed his beliefs.
"When I was outside, one of my objectives was to advocate for rule of law," he said. "I didn't believe that I would end up becoming a victim of rule by power."
By 2015, his writings were mostly banned within China, following an ever-widening crackdown on civil society led by President Xi.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/beijing-gives-australian-citizen-yang-hengjun-suspended-death-sentence/news-story/2dc46f83bd37b9d26b615361c2e3fdcd
https://twitter.com/wmdglasgow/status/1754372448680903145
#16266364 at 2022-05-13 12:03:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition
>>16047076
>>16127896
>>16128445
>>16148857
>>16155389
Labor deputy Richard Marles' run of visits to China embassy
SHARRI MARKSON - MAY 12, 2022
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Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles held 10 meetings with the Chinese embassy or officials in the past five years, at a time when tensions were escalating in the Sino-Australia relationship and the Morrison government was frozen out of contact with Beijing.
The issue of contact with Chinese officials, including "wolf warrior" former ambassador Cheng Jingye, who was responsible for issuing a list of 14 demands to Australia, was raised with the national security apparatus, a three-month investigation by The Australian has uncovered.
Mr Marles's contact with the embassy and attitude towards China sparked concern among Labor colleagues, sources say, including former deputy chair of the joint committee on intelligence and security, Anthony Byrne, and the late Kimberley Kitching.
At one private meeting, Mr Marles is understood to have indicated to Chinese officials that the countries' relationship would improve under a Labor government.
The Australian has confirmed that Mr Marles met officials from the Chinese embassy or consul-general three times in 2017, once in 2018, twice in 2019, once in 2020, twice in 2021 and a meeting was scheduled with new Chinese ambassador for March 2022 but was postponed.
Since she became Foreign Minister in August 2018, Marise Payne has had two meetings with the previous Chinese ambassador and one with his replacement.
The Chinese embassy also facilitated Mr Marles's delivery of a speech in Beijing in September 2019 and arranged for him to meet a senior Communist Party official while on that trip.
At the time of the meetings, ?relations between China and Australia were deteriorating following the debate and passage of the foreign interference legislation, the banning of Huawei and the resignation of Labor senator Sam Dastyari from the frontbench in 2016 and then from parliament in late 2017 after he warned a Chinese donor he was under surveillance.
Mr Marles organised one of the three embassy meetings in 2017 while his Labor colleagues set up the other two that he attended.
Mr Marles always had staff members present for the meetings and was never alone, his spokeswoman said. "Mr Marles has always engaged in professional diplomacy both during his time as a minister and shadow minister- this is not a secret," she said.
"Desperate attempts by others to suggest otherwise, are now getting beyond the pale and don't stand up to the facts."
It is understood that, in conversations with Chinese officials, Mr Marles gave the impression diplomatic relations would improve under a Labor government.
There were concerns his comments would create a perception at the Chinese embassy that Labor would take a softer position on ?national security to the government. Mr Marles could not recall making such remarks when questioned by The Australian.
However, the sentiment is captured in a Chinese-language report dated September 23, 2019, by the International Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
The report records a meeting in Beijing between Mr Marles and the Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Guo Yezhou.
It states Mr Marles said Labor was "willing to deepen exchanges and co-operation between the two parties so as to promote the ?development of Australia-China relations."
Six days later, Mr Marles told then ABC host Fran Kelly that Chinese officials he met in Beijing had complained about how the Australian government was managing the relationship with China.
Mr Marles agreed that "this government, our government right now, is managing this relationship badly". He said there had been "complete ineptness on the part of this government" and added: "Right now, we have a massive trust deficit in terms of our relationship with China, and we need to build trust."
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#16155391 at 2022-04-26 09:37:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition
>>16155389
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South China Sea
In the Q&A session, Mr Marles made similar remarks to former Labor senator Sam Dastyari, who had been dumped from the frontbench more than a year earlier in part because he said Australia should respect China's position on the South China Sea.
Labor's policy position, stronger than the Coalition's at the time, was that Australia should oppose China's claims to sovereignty in the South China Sea.
Former Labor defence spokesman Stephen Conroy had accused China of bullying and aggressive conduct.
The Australian Financial Review reported in August 2016 that Mr Dastyari had said at a press conference two months earlier: "The South China Sea is China's own affair. On this issue, Australia should remain neutral and respect China's decision."
Fourteen months after the controversy erupted, Mr Marles made similar remarks, arguing that Australia shouldn't take a stance on disputes.
He also said the disputes were "not an issue for Australia" and downplayed how the emerging threat would affect our national interest.
"There are sovereignty disputes between countries bordering the South China Sea and China which Australia doesn't take a position on and we shouldn't," Mr Marles said.
"We have a neutral position in relation to that, and however those sovereignty issues between the contesting nations and China is resolved is ultimately not an issue for Australia and is not about our national interest.
"So it is important to clearly articulate what is Australia's national interest and it's also important that we are acting solely in respect of that. So we don't take a position in relation to those sovereignty disputes."
The defence white paper released by the Australian government in 2016 noted competing territorial claims in the South China Sea "raise tensions in the region" and did pose a national security threat to Australia.
Mr Marles also said China's building of artificial islands did breach the UN Convention of the law of the sea and China's actions in the South China Sea "are a cause for anxiety" and he did not agree with them.
"The attempt to grow sovereignty over the South China Sea by changing the facts on the ground does suggest a reliance on the power of occupation rather than the rule of law," he said.
"And make no mistake this matters deeply to Australia. By some estimates, as much as 60 per cent of our trade goes through the South China Sea. Any diminution of our ability to enjoy freedom of navigation in the South China Sea would have a significant impact on our economy."
Military co-operation
Mr Marles spoke at length about his desire to see more military co-operation between Australia and China, claiming it "gives countries a much greater understanding of how you operate".
"It reduces risks of miscalculation, for example, and it affords opportunities," he said.
"I mean there may be a whole lot of opportunities that come from engaging with China in terms of potentially providing joint security and I think ultimately that's not something to be ruled out.
"Getting to know China better matters, and that's why I think there is nothing kind of more intimate, if you like, for a country to do than co-operate in military endeavours, even if we are talking about exercises."
Mr Marles said while there was often an anxiety about managing the duality of the business and political relationship with China, "we need to grow that political relationship as well and as I say for it to be meaningful, military exercises should form a part of it."
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#16155389 at 2022-04-26 09:35:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #22: THIS IS NOT ANOTHER 3-YEAR ELECTION Edition
>>16127896
>>16148857
Richard Marles praised Xi Jinping, China's human rights record, said Australia should stay out of South China Sea dispute
SHARRI MARKSON - APRIL 26, 2022
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Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles praised China's record on human rights, credited Xi Jinping with being a "deeply impactful President" and said Australia should stay out of contested disputes in the South China Sea, echoing a sentiment uttered by then senator Sam Dastyari a year earlier.
Mr Marles, Labor's defence spokesman at the time, made the unscripted remarks, at odds with party policy, in a Q&A session following a speech at Oxford University in October 2017.
In a video recording of the previous unpublished remarks obtained by The Australian, Mr Marles praised China's human rights contribution and described it as a "force for good".
"You can make an argument that it's as big a contribution to human rights in terms of the alleviation of poverty that comes from it that we have seen in our lifetimes," he said.
Mr Marles claimed that while Australia and China "have different political systems, China is, on balance, unquestionably a force for good".
He also spoke about the "really significant contribution that China is making to humanity, which as I described, is the single biggest alleviation of poverty in human history".
"In every speech I make in mentioning China, I always mention that. Not everyone does," he said.
In the speech before his Q&A session, Mr Marles said a starting point to forging a friendship between Australia and China "is to acknowledge China's considerable humanitarian achievements".
Responding to questions on the comments on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Deputy -Opposition Leader said "there are countless examples of ministers of the Morrison government saying positive things about China".
"Unlike those ministers, Richard Marles went to China and criticised China in China for their human rights abuses," she said.
China's influence
Mr Marles argued that the rise of China "needn't be worrying, necessarily".
"China is not the Soviet Union. It does not seek to export an ideology, to supplant our political system and replace it with their own," he said.
"While Australia may lie within a region China sees as being its domain, there is no fear that China would ever imagine forcing upon us an abandoning of our liberal democracy."
At the time Mr Marles made these comments, ASIO had for two years warned political parties about foreign interference and foreign donations from figures linked to the Chinese Communist Party seeking to interfere in our democracy.
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#15600564 at 2022-02-11 11:32:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition
>>15600547
'Reckless and desperate': Malcolm Turnbull savages Peter Dutton for claiming China is backing Labor
Former Liberal prime minister says defence minister has undermined national security 'purely for crass political advantage'
Paul Karp and Daniel Hurst - 11 Feb 2022
Peter Dutton has doubled down on his controversial claims that China would like Labor to defeat the Morrison government at the upcoming federal election, prompting Malcolm Turnbull to warn that such "reckless" comments had "no basis in fact" and harmed Australia's national security.
The defence minister said on Friday there was "no doubt in [his] mind" about what he described as a "statement of the obvious" regarding China's preference of Labor. He claimed he based Thursday's inflammatory allegation on "open source and other intelligence".
The Morrison government, struggling in the polls, is increasingly seeking to weaponise its perceived advantage on national security issues before the 2022 election, despite Labor's bipartisan cooperation against China's aggressive stance in the Asia-Pacific region.
In question time on Thursday, Dutton claimed that the Chinese Communist party had "made a decision about who they're going to back in the next federal election ... and that is open and that is obvious, and they have picked this bloke [Anthony Albanese] as that candidate".
The personal attack on the Labor leader was echoed by Scott Morrison, who claimed that "those who are seeking to coerce Australia" knew that "their candidate" in the election was "the leader of the Labor party".
Turnbull told ABC radio that Dutton's claim was "reckless" because it "undermines Australian security" and "uses matters of grave national security purely for crass political advantage".
The former Liberal prime minister accused Dutton of seeking to wedge both Labor and Morrison by "rushing off to the right" with the inflammatory claim.
"We should not be turning the debate about China and national security into some kind of reds-under-the-beds scare," Turnbull said. "The proposition that Albanese is under influence of the CCP is ludicrous. It's just a sign of desperation."
Asked how ugly he thought the election campaign could get, Turnbull said he was "worried it's going to get uglier" and the China accusation was "really bad".
"Morrison should try to pull Dutton back in on that. It has no basis in fact and all that will do is undermine our prospects of being united in face of pressure from other countries."
But Dutton defended the claim, telling ABC radio there was "open-source information reported over a long period of time" that China and Russia exerted political influence in Australia and other democracies, including the US and the UK.
China and Russia sought to influence "young members [of political parties] who are on the rise" and "pick somebody who will be influential within that party in years to come", he said.
"If you look at the facts, in this case, I think certainly, from what I see, both open source and other intelligence that I see it's a statement of the obvious," Dutton said, without producing any evidence to substantiate the claim about Albanese.
Instead, Dutton cited "relationships going back to" former the Labor senator Sam Dastyari and the former New South Wales premier Bob Carr, who he said was "obviously very close still to Beijing".
"There's no doubt in my mind about the statement that I made yesterday. And I think there needs to be greater awareness, frankly, particularly from the Labor party about the engagement of people who don't have our national interests [at heart]."
Labor has supported the government's diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, criticised the Chinese government's human rights record, and gone further than the Coalition in calling for targeted sanctions to oppose Uyghur forced labour.
In November Albanese rebuffed the former Labor prime minister Paul Keating for arguing for a return to the engagement policies of the 1990s. The opposition leader has also said he stands with Taiwan against Chinese aggression.
The director general of the Office of National Intelligence, Andrew Shearer, has said national security "is rightly bipartisan in a more partisan world" and his dealings with Albanese and senior Labor colleagues during private security briefings have been "cordial, constructive and professional".
In his threat assessment speech on Wednesday evening, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Mike Burgess, said "attempts at political interference are not confined to one side of politics".
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/11/reckless-and-desperate-malcolm-turnbull-savages-peter-dutton-for-claiming-china-is-backing-labor
#15600547 at 2022-02-11 11:24:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #21: MIL-CIV ALLIANCE Edition
>>15592354
Chinese spies in plot to install ALP candidates at coming federal election
BEN PACKHAM - FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Chinese spies sought to bankroll the campaigns of hand-picked NSW Labor candidates in the upcoming federal election in a plot foiled by ASIO.
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess referred to the case earlier this week, without identifying the political party involved or the nation behind the plot, saying a wealthy "puppeteer" had worked with a local "cut-out" to try to secure the election of sympathetic candidates.
Multiple national security and ALP sources have confirmed to The Australian that the case involved an attempt to subvert Labor's NSW federal preselection process last year.
Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison were briefed on the conspiracy.
Mr Albanese on Friday said he met with Mr Burgess regularly, but was unable to comment on the contents of those briefings.
However, he said he had received assurances that ASIO had no concerns about any preselected Labor candidates.
"I have spoken to Mr Burgess today and he has reaffirmed he has not raised concern about any of my candidates. I can't be clearer than that," Mr Albanese said.
In a statement on Thursday, NSW Labor Party general secretary Bob Nanva said the state branch had not been briefed on the matter by ASIO.
"NSW Labor can confirm that no national security agency has ever raised these alleged matters with the parliamentary leadership or the organisational wing of the NSW Branch," he said.
Revealing the spy plot in his annual threat assessment on Wednesday, Mr Burgess said the agency was on high alert for political interference.
"I can confirm that ASIO ?recently detected and disrupted a foreign interference plot in the lead-up to an election in Australia," he said.
"I'm not going to identify the jurisdiction because we are seeing attempts at foreign interference at all levels of government, in all states and territories."
Mr Burgess said case involved a "wealthy individual with direct and deep connections with a foreign government and its intelligence agencies", who
"I'll call this person 'the puppeteer', although it's important to ?remember that while the puppeteer pulled the strings, the foreign government called the shots."
The "puppeteer" provided hundreds of thousands of dollars through an offshore bank account to run foreign-interference operations through a third party with ?direct links to politicians, political staff and journalists
"This agent of interference has roots in Australia but did the bidding of offshore masters, knowingly and covertly seeking to advance the interests of the foreign power and, in the process, undermine Australia's sovereignty," Mr Burgess said.
The confirmation that the plot targeted potential Labor MPs came as Defence Minister Peter Dutton doubled down on his claim that China has decided to back Labor at the federal election.
He said there was "intelligence" and open source information of links between China and the ALP.
"I think there's no doubt that there are elements within the Communist Party that would be very happy to see the back of our government," he said.
"From what I see, both open source and other intelligence that I see, it's a statement of the obvious, and there are relationships going back to Sam Dastyari and Bob Carr is still very close to Beijing, and there are many others."
Mr Albanese said the suggestion China favoured Labor was "just desperate". He said he taken a strong stand against foreign interference, and been clear in his rejection of Chinese trade bans against Australia and Beijing's repression of Uighurs and citizens of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
"I'm not going to sit back and cop the sort of nonsense that has been put forward, from a government that sat back, while the port of Darwin was sold to interests of a company directly engaged with, directly connected to, the government of the People's Republic of China," he said.
Mr Dutton's attack followed his claim to parliament on Thursday that it was "open and obvious" that China was backing Labor to win the election.
"We now see evidence that the Chinese Communist Party has also made a decision about who they're going to back in the next federal election ... and that is open and obvious," Mr Dutton said.
"And they have picked this bloke (Mr Albanese) as their candidate," he added.
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull told ABC Radio the Mr Dutton's attack was "a sign of desperation".
"(His comments) were purely for crass political advantage," he said.
"We've got to stand our ground (against China), but we've got to do so in a measured way. There has got to be nuance and diplomacy."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/chinese-spies-in-plot-to-install-alp-candidates-at-coming-federal-election/news-story/f917096d91d83d449bfad778e4685f5a
#15025557 at 2021-11-18 07:43:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition
>>14995182
Left's post-lockdown deb ball at Trades Hall
Stephen Brook and Samantha Hutchinson - November 18, 2021
To Victorian Trades Hall on Tuesday night for the post-lockdown debutante ball of the Melbourne Left, the launch of Van Badham's book QAnon and On, which is pleasingly already ranked number one in the conspiracy theories category of the Kindle bookstore.
The crowd was thick with political luminaries, union supremos, arts mavens, community entrepreneurs and members of the commentariat to hear former Labor leader Bill Shorten give a witty speech to launch the book. He said, self-deprecatingly, "you may know me as Shifty Shorten, Unbelieva-Bill, a faceless man or a man with too much forehead, the grim reaper, a member of the Illuminati, one of the lizard people, the killer of weekends or worse".
Trades Hall secretary Luke Hilakari hosted the event in front of green investor Simon Holmes a Court, ACTU secretary Sally McManus and ACTU president Michele O'Neil, as well as Labor MPs Joanne Ryan, Josh Burns and Andrew Giles.
Also there: Nicholas Reece, the deputy mayor of Melbourne and Sky News's token leftie, literary personality Marieke Hardy, playwright Raimondo Cortese, journalist Jamila Rizvi, former senator Sam Dastyari, Moroccan Soup Bar owner Hana Assafiri and Maurice Blackburnites Josh Bornstein and Liberty Sanger.
So many union supremos - from the CPSU, AWU, ASU, HACSU, ETU, IEU - were present that the event was described as having "more titles than a royal wedding".
https://www.theage.com.au/national/left-s-post-lockdown-deb-ball-at-trades-hall-20211117-p599ti.html
#13499309 at 2021-04-24 02:43:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #15 - NEVER RETREAT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD Edition
>>13485007
'Insidious': Former ASIO boss warns on Chinese interference in Australia
Peter Hartcher - November 22, 2019
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Former ASIO boss Duncan Lewis has said the Chinese government is seeking to "take over" Australia's political system through its "insidious" foreign interference operations.
Any person in political office was a potential target, he said, with the full impact perhaps not apparent for decades.
In the only interview Mr Lewis has given since retiring in September, he also urged Australia's Chinese community to help security agencies in the Same way local Muslim communities identified threats of terrorist activity.
Asked what the Chinese government wanted from Australia, Mr Lewis said: "They are trying to place themselves in a position of advantage."
As well as targeting politicians, Chinese authorities were working to win influence in social, business and media circles, he said.
"Espionage and foreign interference is insidious. Its effects might not present for decades and by that time it's too late. You wake up one day and find decisions made in our country that are not in the interests of our country," Mr Lewis said.
"Not only in politics but also in the community or in business. It takes over, basically, pulling the strings from offshore."
Mr Lewis was the director-general of security for five years as head of ASIO, the intelligence agency whose primary job is to guard against foreign interference.
He did not single out China during his term in office. When he spoke of malign state actors posing an "existential" threat to Australia, it was a generic reference to foreign governments.
But in the post-retirement interview, he said while it was not only China that preoccupied the Australian authorities, it was "overwhelmingly" China.
Covert foreign intrusion into the heart of Australian politics was "something we need to be very, very careful about", he said in the interview for the forthcoming Quarterly Essay, Red Flag: Waking up to China's challenge, to be published on Monday.
"One spectacular case in NSW was Sam Dastyari. It's quite clear to me that any person in political office is potentially a target. I'm not trying to create paranoia, but there does need to be a level of sensible awareness.
"When people talked about [how to define foreign interference in] our political system, I used to get the comment, 'We will know it if we see it'. But not necessarily. Not if it's being done properly. There would be some I don't know about."
Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari quit Parliament in 2017 after a series of revelations about his links to Chinese Communist Party-aligned interests in Australia.
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#9751869 at 2020-06-26 07:05:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #8 - WE ARE THE CURE Edition
NSW MP's Sydney home raided as ASIO probes China links
Counter-espionage agency ASIO is conducting a sweeping investigation into allegations Chinese government agents have infiltrated the office of a NSW Labor politician to influence Australian politics.
Multiple sources aware of the foreign interference investigation said it was scrutinising the office of NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane as part of one of the most significant inquiries in recent ASIO history.
As part of the inquiry, the federal police raided properties linked to Mr Moselmane on Friday morning, searching for evidence to support allegations of a Chinese government plot unfolding on Australian soil.
The sources said if sufficient evidence was found, the inquiry could ultimately result in an Australian and world first: a prosecution for foreign interference offences arising from an alleged covert Chinese Communist Party plot to influence a serving politician.
A dozen plain-clothed federal agents raided Mr Moselmane's two-storey house in Rockdale, in Sydney's south, at 6.30am and began conducting an extensive search for evidence.
An hour later, six forensics officers arrived and assisted with the search. At 9am, detectives searched three cars- an Audi, ute and Volvo- outside Mr Moselmane's house.
Mr Moselmane's lawyer arrived during the search and was let into the home by federal agents. The agents searched the house and were seen carrying bags and folders.
The Attorney-General Christian Porter has authorised efforts by ASIO to gather evidence of any person suspected of seeking to influence Mr Moselmane or his staff on behalf of the Chinese government. The step could only be taken if there were reasonable grounds to suspect evidence may be at those properties.
Security expert Neil Fergus said: "ASIO would not take this step lightly."
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age is not suggesting the allegations involving Mr Moselmane and his office are proven, only that they are the subject of an ASIO and federal police inquiry.
The revelations of the ASIO probe are likely to trigger a political storm, given Labor has already weathered intense criticism over Mr Moselmane and his office's apparent disdain for bipartisan reforms to curb Chinese government interference in Australia and the upper house MP's unabashed praise of Beijing.
It is also likely to dramatically inflame tensions between China and Australia, which have plunged to a new low point following the federal government's calls for an inquiry into Beijing's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Politicians across the nation have been repeatedly warned by ASIO about safeguarding against foreign government influence efforts. The warnings were amplified after the 2018 resignation of Labor senator Sam Dastyari amid claims he'd been cultivated by CCP-aligned political donor Huang Xiangmo, who was expelled from Australia in late 2018 after ASIO warned he may be engaged in foreign interference.
Since 2018, Mr Moselmane and his part-time staffer John Zhang have attracted media and political scrutiny over their support for Chinese government positions and criticisms of Australian government policy.
Mr Moselmane resigned as assistant president of the NSW Legislative Council after the Herald and The Age revealed how he wrote in an essay for a Chinese University that "the obsolete scum of white Australia" had re-emerged, attacked Australia's "mainstream media" as anti-Chinese and praised Beijing's leadership during the coronavirus crisis. The February essay mirrored Chinese state propaganda and was translated into Chinese by his staffer, Mr Zhang.
It was only the most recent of many controversial pro-Beijing comments Mr Moselmane has made. Mr Moselmane controversially gave a speech in 2019 proclaiming a "new world order" was needed for China to reach its potential.
Mr Moselmane has taken nine privately-funded trips to China since entering Parliament in 2009. Disclosure records show his transport and hospitality costs were often met by Chinese government officials or agencies.
He appointed Mr Zhang to his parliamentary office as a part-time staffer at the beginning of 2019. Mr Zhang has, according to Chinese websites, attended a propaganda training course in 2013 run by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, which merged in 2018 with Chinese Communist Party's opaque influence agency, the United Front Work Department (UFWD). The precise nature of the course is not known.
The UFWD, in part, works to increase the CCP's influence in foreign political systems by employing legitimate means as well as covert, coercive methods.
Covert and coercive measures are outlawed under Australian counter-foreign interference laws.
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https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-mp-s-sydney-home-raided-as-asio-probes-china-links-20200626-p556f6.html
#4947085 at 2019-01-29 03:51:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #2
Australia Notes 4 of 5
Some of the Foreign Influence in Australia (most things that happen there seem to involve foreign influence):
Elon Musk recently completed a large scale power project in South Australia.
www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/jamestown-battery-built-by-billionaire-elon-musk-to-be-powered-up-for-first-time-as-testing-phase-begins/news-story/7ecd074e843a754c78f7872bbc5581bd
Australian politicians Seem to have obligations to the Clinton Foundation:
dailycaller.com/2016/07/27/exclusive-clinton-foundation-got-20m-from-down-under-or-88m/
Paywalled The Australian article also supports $75m +.
Sam Dastyari (Elected Rep of Iranian heritage) was in bed with the Chinese
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dastyari
China & USA in disagreement. Who did USA want this port sold to? Or was it just for show?
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/12/09/us-link-Sam-Dastyari-leaks/15127380005616
Port Privatization: www.hfw.com/Australias-new-dawn-port-privatisation-November-2013
Who is behind this? Who is buying the ports? (Hutchison, DP World (UAE), CTS inc, China, India)
theconversation.com/having-australian-ports-in-foreign-hands-could-harm-our-long-term-security-46525
Who is securing the ports?
Australia Spent $60M on MH370 Search
www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/18/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-australia-says-cost-didnt-force-suspension-of-search
Australia is fully committed to the F-35 program (replacing most of fleet). It was a
sticking point with patriot RAAF vets:
www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html (Good reads here)
www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/02/australia-should-buy-f-22s-not-f-35s-says-retired-raaf-wing-commander/
Australian runs around 100 air/ground attack aircraft. Currently F/A-18 variants (formerly F-111 for decades). For a small country, their air force is a big deal and primary deterrent.
Australia in regard to Trump investigation (in addition to well known Turnbull call leak):
www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/romantic-encounter-set-off-australias-role-in-triggering-donald-trump-investigation-20180105-h0e34r.html
Australia is part of the Five Eyes and collects/stores for the NSA:
theintercept.com/2017/08/19/nsa-spy-hub-cia-pine-gap-australia/
www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-6-intelligence-agencies-heres-what-they-are-and-the-work-they-do-2013-11
www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-08/australian-nsa-involvement-explained/5079786
Individuals with dual citizenship are not permitted to hold federal elected offices. This year it was exposed that many do hold dual citizenship, and they have had to step down. This has been happening for a long time. Why expose now? Start of some swamp draining?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Australian_parliamentary_eligibility_crisis
Chinese infiltration in Australian Universities
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-15/chinese-intrusion-on-western-universities-sparks-action/9048456
www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-spies-at-sydney-university-20140420-36ywk.html
www.smh.com.au/national/education/australias-topranked-global-university-moves-to-lower-share-of-chinese-students-20161004-grupa3.html
Chinese property investors create a bubble in Aus too
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-06/impact-of-chinese-buyers-on-australian-house-prices/9021938
www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/chinese-ownership-of-agricultural-land-soars-above-3-million-hectares-20161022-gs8hk5.html
Which foreign companies get IT Contracts in Australia?
IBM
www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/its-not-the-first-time-the-government-has-been-upset-with-ibm/news-story/a9b08f22cd7582af595a201285c67840
www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-australia-scores-au96m-human-services-mainframe-contract/
Also SAP and Microsoft.
#4603 at 2018-01-09 16:51:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #1
Australia Notes 4 of 5
Some of the Foreign Influence in Australia (most things that happen there seem to involve foreign influence):
Elon Musk recently completed a large scale power project in South Australia.
www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/jamestown-battery-built-by-billionaire-elon-musk-to-be-powered-up-for-first-time-as-testing-phase-begins/news-story/7ecd074e843a754c78f7872bbc5581bd
Australian politicians Seem to have obligations to the Clinton Foundation:
dailycaller.com/2016/07/27/exclusive-clinton-foundation-got-20m-from-down-under-or-88m/
Paywalled The Australian article also supports $75m +.
Sam Dastyari (Elected Rep of Iranian heritage) was in bed with the Chinese
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dastyari
China & USA in disagreement. Who did USA want this port sold to? Or was it just for show?
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/12/09/us-link-Sam-Dastyari-leaks/15127380005616
Port Privatization: www.hfw.com/Australias-new-dawn-port-privatisation-November-2013
Who is behind this? Who is buying the ports? (Hutchison, DP World (UAE), CTS inc, China, India)
theconversation.com/having-australian-ports-in-foreign-hands-could-harm-our-long-term-security-46525
Who is securing the ports?
Australia Spent $60M on MH370 Search
www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/18/malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-australia-says-cost-didnt-force-suspension-of-search
Australia is fully committed to the F-35 program (replacing most of fleet). It was a
sticking point with patriot RAAF vets:
www.ausairpower.net/jsf.html (Good reads here)
www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/02/australia-should-buy-f-22s-not-f-35s-says-retired-raaf-wing-commander/
Australian runs around 100 air/ground attack aircraft. Currently F/A-18 variants (formerly F-111 for decades). For a small country, their air force is a big deal and primary deterrent.
Australia in regard to Trump investigation (in addition to well known Turnbull call leak):
www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/romantic-encounter-set-off-australias-role-in-triggering-donald-trump-investigation-20180105-h0e34r.html
Australia is part of the Five Eyes and collects/stores for the NSA:
theintercept.com/2017/08/19/nsa-spy-hub-cia-pine-gap-australia/
www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-6-intelligence-agencies-heres-what-they-are-and-the-work-they-do-2013-11
www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-08/australian-nsa-involvement-explained/5079786
Individuals with dual citizenship are not permitted to hold federal elected offices. This year it was exposed that many do hold dual citizenship, and they have had to step down. This has been happening for a long time. Why expose now? Start of some swamp draining?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Australian_parliamentary_eligibility_crisis
Chinese infiltration in Australian Universities
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-15/chinese-intrusion-on-western-universities-sparks-action/9048456
www.smh.com.au/national/chinese-spies-at-sydney-university-20140420-36ywk.html
www.smh.com.au/national/education/australias-topranked-global-university-moves-to-lower-share-of-chinese-students-20161004-grupa3.html
Chinese property investors create a bubble in Aus too
www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-06/impact-of-chinese-buyers-on-australian-house-prices/9021938
www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/chinese-ownership-of-agricultural-land-soars-above-3-million-hectares-20161022-gs8hk5.html
Which foreign companies get IT Contracts in Australia?
IBM
www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/its-not-the-first-time-the-government-has-been-upset-with-ibm/news-story/a9b08f22cd7582af595a201285c67840
www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-australia-scores-au96m-human-services-mainframe-contract/
Also SAP and Microsoft.