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Aug 13th, 2019 at 11:44pm
 
The government has told Channel Nine to brush up on its legal obligations under the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme.

After the network aired undercover footage of Steve Dickson groping a woman and making derogatory remarks at a strip club in the United States, the government wrote to the CEO to chastise him for broadcasting footage of a political leader at a strip club ahead of this year's federal election.

An assistant secretary from the Attorney-General’s Department sent Nine's CEO Hugh Marks a stern letter after the strip club story, suggesting the broadcast may have been illegal and outlining concerns that Nine had allowed a foreign actor to influence a domestic election.

It referred to the foreign influence and transparency scheme, a 2018 law that requires agents of foreign influence to register with the government.

It is a criminal offence not to register and the law has no exemptions for journalists.

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It is the department’s view that, if this broadcast was done on behalf of a foreign principal (Al Jazeera) then it would be a registrable communications activity.

However, we note that Al Jazeera has subsequently issued a public statement denying its involvement in the broadcast which may indicate that the broadcast was not undertaken on Al Jazeera’s behalf.


Yesterday Marks told a parliamentary joint committee inquiring into press freedom that the letter;

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Noted that while we didn't break the law, she (assistant secretary) was strongly encouraging us to undertake a self-assessment of our registration obligations.

It's quite clear we hadn't even come close to breaking any laws, so why send us the letter? This type of correspondence has a chilling effect because the maximum penalties for these offences range from six months to five years imprisonment. It's a perfect example of the tone that is being set, of a culture aimed to gag the media and provide disincentives to us uncovering wrongs which merely embarrass or offend public officials.


Now Raven can understand that the government does not want a foreign entity to influence our press, that's a no brainer. But in this case we have an Australian political leader, on camera, groping women and making derogatory comments. It's in (to quote 1930s cartoons) Technicolour. So where is the foreign influence?

The concerning thing is the government is deliberately attacking our media, the raids on ABC and Annika Smethurst shows that our government considers investigative journalism is in the same category as criminality.

How far are we, the people, going to allow this?
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Reply #1 - Aug 13th, 2019 at 11:57pm
 
And the Chinese are bribing the Labor Party.
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Reply #2 - Aug 13th, 2019 at 11:59pm
 
You are ignorant if you believe it's only the Labor party.
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Reply #3 - Aug 14th, 2019 at 5:34am
 
Our politicians, every single one of them, is being bribed.
As are all senior public servants and a good number of general public servants,
It's what makes the public service rich.

I ask you
On a stated income of just over 200 grand a year, how do politicians retire with millions in the bank?
I'll tell you this, for quite a few years I was earning slightly less than 200 grand, and I don't have millions in the bank.

The only way these crooks can amass that amount of money is through bribes.
They take the money and screw us every single day.
Privatizing everything so tgat we pay more, but they get their bribes.

Why, for What logical reason, woukd a grubberment sell off the lotteries?
Money for nothing, virtually zero input, with huge profits.
Someone, politicians and senior public servants, made a motsza on that little deal, I'll bet.
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Reply #4 - Aug 14th, 2019 at 7:51am
 
It is their fantastic polly pension.

Gillard and Kruddy get about $500,000.00/year for causing enormous damage to Australia.

Why do you think Shorty is so bitter and twisted after missing out ?
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Reply #5 - Aug 14th, 2019 at 6:20pm
 
Raven wrote on Aug 13th, 2019 at 11:59pm:
You are ignorant if you believe it's only the Labor party.


Correct and timely.

Australian Liberal MP Gladys Liu's links to secretive United Front Chinese influence arm

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Reply #6 - Aug 14th, 2019 at 6:28pm
 
Bam wrote on Aug 14th, 2019 at 6:20pm:
Australian Liberal MP Gladys Liu's links to secretive United Front Chinese influence arm


Yeah Although she apparently left in 2016 or 2017. But the Labor candidate Yang seems to be still a member.

Aose apparently is not a Bhudda, but a fake.
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Reply #7 - Aug 15th, 2019 at 6:29pm
 
There's even a big ICAC inquiry into Chinese bribing the NSW Labor Party.

And what about Mr Bean and the Chinese ?

And what about those CFMMEU flammable Chinese claddings ?

Labor's vast cesspool of corruption just grows larger as each year passes.
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