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Oct 8th, 2019 at 6:37pm
 
To hide their embarrassment will the Chinese Labor Party Review bury Shady Shorten in an unmarked grave ?



Blame game: who's lining up to bury Bill Shorten's reputation?
By Kylar Loussikian October 3, 2019 — 11.55pm

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Bill Shorten's role in the federal election loss is a controversy among ALP election review panellists.CREDIT:GOLDING

With less than a month until Labor’s federal election review is delivered to the party’s national executive, attention among the drafting committee has turned to one key question: to kill or not to kill, so to speak, Bill Shorten.

Shorten was hardly the first unpopular party leader, but now comes the apportionment of blame for the policies and campaigning which skewered Labor’s chances in May.

The review is being led by former Gillard-era minister Craig Emerson and former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill, with assistance from union boss Linda White, Senator Anthony Chisholm, NSW Labor MP John Graham and Newgate spinner Lenda Oshalem.

Emerson, it turns out, is most keen to take the bat – or Uma Thurmanesque five-finger death punch – to Shorten.

But the argument is far from concluded. CBD is told Weatherill is more reluctant to blame Shorten for the election loss, while others all fall in between.

The view of some in Labor is that putting the election all on Shorten could have some serious long-term repercussions within the party.

Wouldn’t want to annoy the Victorian Right, or so it goes.


As those who are more reticent point out, many of the policies now being blamed for the election loss – including the enormously damaging dividend imputation reforms – sailed through shadow cabinet without much backlash from his colleagues.

While the drafting of the review is under way, we hear the argument over who is ultimately to blame is still being hashed out. Former Labor national secretary Noah Carroll is sure to cop some of it, particularly in respect to campaigning and polling.

But as we wrote earlier this week, he’s already landed upright elsewhere.

Why worry about the past when you can make a motza at KPMG?


RETURN OF THE TRIPROTEGE
Meanwhile, Shorten's former strategy director Ian McNamara has found himself a new gig.

The whispering at Macquarie Street this week was that he had been seconded to do “special projects” for the Australian Workers’ Union, a euphemism most often used to describe the loyal foot soldiers who compile opposition dirt files. The truth is significantly milder.

McNamara has started at the AWU, but he’s there to assist national secretary Dan Walton overhaul the outfit as part of long-flagged modernisation plans. He's just consulting, we're told.

Before his time with Shorten, McNamara was a long-serving NSW Labor operator who worked in senior roles for former leader Luke Foley and his predecessor John Robertson.

Unfortunately, at least among NSW Labor’s Parliament House crew, it’s been hard for McNamara to shake a rather irritating nickname: the Triprotege.

Once upon a time, it turns out, the highly regarded adviser working for the then premier Kristina Keneally was well known for his closeness to former Labor powerbroker Joe Tripodi.

THE MANILA FOLDER

It must be trench-coat and fake moustache season at the Big Australian’s Melbourne HQ.

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BHP boss Andrew Mackenzie is expected to leave the company soon.CREDIT:EAMON GALLAGHER

BHP chief executive Andrew Mackenzie might be insisting he isn’t going anywhere, but there sure seems like there's plenty of cloak-and-dagger manoeuvring going on.

In August, this column reported the mining giant’s institutional investors were pushing BHP chairman Ken MacKenzie to consider an external candidate. And how they sneered at us.

But as Bloomberg revealed last week, MacKenzie had approached Anglo American boss Mark Cutifani (not once but twice) about taking a tilt at the top job.

BHP’s chief financial officer Peter Beaven has already made it clear he isn’t in the running, leaving the well-liked local boss Mike Henry as the leading internal candidate.

We can’t help but wonder how the revelation MacKenzie was looking at Cutifani went down with Henry (and North American mining operations chief Danny Malchuk, the dark horse).

Some close to the company have recently pointed out to us that Cutifani not only took home more than $25 million from his current gig this year, but his contract would force him to sit at home and tend to the garden for 12 months. Aren’t non-compete clauses the worst?

Another external candidate MacKenzie has likely eyed is none other than BHP’s former chief financial officer Graham Kerr, who left in 2014 to become the managing director at South32.

But could all that be a bluff to appease the company’s big backers?

Henry would certainly be hoping so.

Meanwhile, MacKenzie has often been heard telling those around him that his “Brand Ken” will smooth over ruffled feathers. Perhaps he can apply some of that magic to this situation.

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Reply #1 - Oct 8th, 2019 at 6:50pm
 
Shorten is an adulterous, corrupt, union hack.

He should never have been the Labor leader.
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Reply #2 - Oct 8th, 2019 at 7:26pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Oct 8th, 2019 at 6:50pm:
Shorten is an adulterous, corrupt, union hack.

He should never have been the Labor leader.


Yet the Coalition gave us Malcolm Turnbull whom they concede was completely useless....Now they have changed nothing and done nothing so the conclusion is they are still useless only now with a bible bashing moron as leader!!!

Huh Huh Huh
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Reply #3 - Oct 8th, 2019 at 8:07pm
 
philperth2010 wrote on Oct 8th, 2019 at 7:26pm:
Bobby. wrote on Oct 8th, 2019 at 6:50pm:
Shorten is an adulterous, corrupt, union hack.

He should never have been the Labor leader.


Yet the Coalition gave us Malcolm Turnbull whom they concede was completely useless....Now they have changed nothing and done nothing so the conclusion is they are still useless only now with a bible bashing moron as leader!!!

Huh Huh Huh


But he does speak in tongues, that's a plus....does he fall on the floor, eyes rolled up, and do a St Vitus Dance while speaking in tongues????

Arrr, aye - the spirit of the Lord be upon him...  reminds me of Peter Garrett....

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Reply #4 - Oct 9th, 2019 at 5:33am
 
philperth2010 wrote on Oct 8th, 2019 at 7:26pm:
Bobby. wrote on Oct 8th, 2019 at 6:50pm:
Shorten is an adulterous, corrupt, union hack.

He should never have been the Labor leader.


Yet the Coalition gave us Malcolm Turnbull whom they concede was completely useless....Now they have changed nothing and done nothing so the conclusion is they are still useless only now with a bible bashing moron as leader!!!

Huh Huh Huh



Both major parties have had useless leaders with
no vision ever since Paul Keating.
Even he had his limitations.
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Reply #6 - Oct 9th, 2019 at 10:45am
 
Will the Grappler lay flowers on Shady Shorten's unmarked grave ?

Shady Shorten losing the "unloseable" election has plunged the Chinese Labor Party into deep debt.

Now, more than ever, they are looking for Chinese bribes. Soon the Chinese Labor Party will be owned by the Chinese.

Won't this dark shadow of Chinese bribes over the Chinese Labor Party be a Gift from God for ScoMo at the next election.




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Albo is looking over his shoulder for movement in the shadows!!!!




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Today's Sunday papers have an exclusive with Bill Shorten MP. Bill reveals he wants to 'remain in public life for the next 20 years', but has no aspiration to be leader.
The look on Chloe's face is priceless.  How long will his marriage of convenience last now ?


It seems Shady Shorten is still as hated and despised and loathed as he was at the election. And just think the Lefties ADORE him!!!!

Eileen Maylin    I think she expected More from her other side of the tracks boyo.

John Edwards   .....and Chloie was sooooo looking forward to being the leading lady. Tough bikkies

Paul Neilsen   Chloe's face and mental thought, "time for me to look for a new husband and wreck another family"..

Rocky Tapscott   Good lord, 20 more years of Bill. I guess he has never had a real job so all he knows is how to lie for a living.

Ginger Willie   He lies that much, he thinks he's good at it but she's worked him out and just recognised another fluffy coming from his mouth.

Kenny Brand    How can his missus take him seriously when blue collar folk (used to be staunch labor voters) won't even shake his hand.

Robert Giannarelli   Lol she did the dirty on her former husband because she thought she’d have the best chance of being First Lady with Bill. It’s not Bill Albo has to worry about, it’s His missus!!!

Jeanette Fitzgerald   I hope the voters of Maribyrnong have other ideas.

Johnnii    Fred Of course he wants an endless meal ticket on the public purse. That's what his entire life has trained him for 

Lynda Dowling   He said he is, and always has been, for the worker - yet his personal ambitions for a seat in parliament, cost the Clean Event cleaners millions in lost wages, terms and conditions, as he did a financially lucrative deal with the company, for himself instead.

Chris J. Norris   You were not a “leader” to begin with Mr Shorten....so crawl back under the rock you’ve been hiding under since the LNP walloped you and the Labor Party at the last election!!!

Robin Hickman   We all know he has no aspirations to be leader, that was bloody obvious.
The man's a dill.

Sandra Fleming   Of course you would love to be leader again Bill, and would lie and cheat your way to the top....if there’s a next time, I bet you won’t have Bowen there saying, “if you don’t like it, don’t vote for us.” Well, we didn’t! You were all so bloody cocky weren’t you! 😂

John Singer   Shorten liked taking credit for what was a team effort.

Jackie McInnes   He knows a "cushy" job when he sees one !

Brett Lowie Lower 20 more years of an over inflated wage and not really having to work, who wouldn't want that gig

Michael Davies   Good ,robbed the worker to go into politics raise the pension age ,but still on easy money

Barry Simpson   It's hardly public service, more like self service.

Bill Richards   I wonder how much longer the marriage will last 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Dave McDermid   In other words this union parasite wants to continue living off someone else's money without doing anything for it.

Lyn Buxton   What you want and what you get may be two different things. Hopefully the voters in his electorate have woken up to the fact that they are beating a dead horse!

Phil McTaggart  Like a blowfly , " when on a good thing , stick to it " . Now if only we could bring out the Mortein !

Len Clark   Does the Party agree,surely Albo is not as silly as he looks and sounds

Wal Pausin   If he's there for another 20 years Labor are in for 20 years of pain..

Timothy Grey   Do not think Bill Shorten would make it in the private sector. Would be jailed with in 12 months
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The Lefties are distraught that their HERO is being treated so shabbily. Especially as GetUp! still tells them that Labor really won.
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Reply #8 - Oct 10th, 2019 at 2:49pm
 
juliar wrote on Oct 10th, 2019 at 2:38pm:
The Lefties are distraught that their HERO is being treated so shabbily. Especially as GetUp! still tells them that Labor really won.


New Zealand awaits them, and they can take their bags of Chinese money with them
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Does the NZ Talking Horse get Chinese Bribes too ?

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juliar wrote on Oct 9th, 2019 at 10:45am:
Will the Grappler lay flowers on Shady Shorten's unmarked grave ?

Shady Shorten losing the "unloseable" election has plunged the Chinese Labor Party into deep debt.

Now, more than ever, they are looking for Chinese bribes. Soon the Chinese Labor Party will be owned by the Chinese.

Won't this dark shadow of Chinese bribes over the Chinese Labor Party be a Gift from God for ScoMo at the next election.




https://i.postimg.cc/5NH1jfJg/alboppp-o.jpg
Albo is looking over his shoulder for movement in the shadows!!!!




https://i.postimg.cc/qvSG0XLQ/chloeee-o.jpg

Today's Sunday papers have an exclusive with Bill Shorten MP. Bill reveals he wants to 'remain in public life for the next 20 years', but has no aspiration to be leader.
The look on Chloe's face is priceless.  How long will his marriage of convenience last now ?


It seems Shady Shorten is still as hated and despised and loathed as he was at the election. And just think the Lefties ADORE him!!!!

Eileen Maylin    I think she expected More from her other side of the tracks boyo.

John Edwards   .....and Chloie was sooooo looking forward to being the leading lady. Tough bikkies

Paul Neilsen   Chloe's face and mental thought, "time for me to look for a new husband and wreck another family"..

Rocky Tapscott   Good lord, 20 more years of Bill. I guess he has never had a real job so all he knows is how to lie for a living.

Ginger Willie   He lies that much, he thinks he's good at it but she's worked him out and just recognised another fluffy coming from his mouth.

Kenny Brand    How can his missus take him seriously when blue collar folk (used to be staunch labor voters) won't even shake his hand.

Robert Giannarelli   Lol she did the dirty on her former husband because she thought she’d have the best chance of being First Lady with Bill. It’s not Bill Albo has to worry about, it’s His missus!!!

Jeanette Fitzgerald   I hope the voters of Maribyrnong have other ideas.

Johnnii    Fred Of course he wants an endless meal ticket on the public purse. That's what his entire life has trained him for 

Lynda Dowling   He said he is, and always has been, for the worker - yet his personal ambitions for a seat in parliament, cost the Clean Event cleaners millions in lost wages, terms and conditions, as he did a financially lucrative deal with the company, for himself instead.

Chris J. Norris   You were not a “leader” to begin with Mr Shorten....so crawl back under the rock you’ve been hiding under since the LNP walloped you and the Labor Party at the last election!!!

Robin Hickman   We all know he has no aspirations to be leader, that was bloody obvious.
The man's a dill.

Sandra Fleming   Of course you would love to be leader again Bill, and would lie and cheat your way to the top....if there’s a next time, I bet you won’t have Bowen there saying, “if you don’t like it, don’t vote for us.” Well, we didn’t! You were all so bloody cocky weren’t you! 😂

John Singer   Shorten liked taking credit for what was a team effort.

Jackie McInnes   He knows a "cushy" job when he sees one !

Brett Lowie Lower 20 more years of an over inflated wage and not really having to work, who wouldn't want that gig

Michael Davies   Good ,robbed the worker to go into politics raise the pension age ,but still on easy money

Barry Simpson   It's hardly public service, more like self service.

Bill Richards   I wonder how much longer the marriage will last 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Dave McDermid   In other words this union parasite wants to continue living off someone else's money without doing anything for it.

Lyn Buxton   What you want and what you get may be two different things. Hopefully the voters in his electorate have woken up to the fact that they are beating a dead horse!

Phil McTaggart  Like a blowfly , " when on a good thing , stick to it " . Now if only we could bring out the Mortein !

Len Clark   Does the Party agree,surely Albo is not as silly as he looks and sounds

Wal Pausin   If he's there for another 20 years Labor are in for 20 years of pain..

Timothy Grey   Do not think Bill Shorten would make it in the private sector. Would be jailed with in 12 months


Well, doc, I challenge any red-blooded man to say NO when that sweet little thing is right there in front of you.. I mean.. she was fifteen going on thirty, just between us guys, you know... and St barney will tell you - you can't help who you fall in love with.... or what pussy....

Chees - this is like talking to Yadda about the insane Islamite...
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Reply #11 - Oct 11th, 2019 at 11:42am
 
The Grappler is becoming quite philosophical.  Wonder what Shady Shorten's previous estranged wife reckons ?

At the time Shady Shorten thought he had it made marrying the GG's daughter when Labor was wrecking the joint.

How long before Chloe ditches Shady Shorten now she sees him as just a lying failure - a nobody.
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Reply #12 - Oct 18th, 2019 at 12:20pm
 
Can Albo hold off the attack by Shady Shorty ?  Will the ALP be in OPPOSITION for the next 20 years ?

Will Shady Shorty be buried in an unmarked grave for losing the election and plunging the ALP into deep debt ?




Leadership murmurs begin as election review finds blue-collar workers abandoned Labor
Samantha Maiden 6:15am, Oct 18, 2019 Updated: 11:55pm, Oct 17

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The ALP post-election review could have repercussions for Anthony Albanese beyond Bill Shorten. Photo: Getty

The Labor Party’s scathing post-mortem into the 2019 election defeat will be finalised on Sunday amid complaints it’s “a hatchet job” on Bill Shorten and growing concerns about Anthony Albanese’s leadership.

The final report will be thrashed out over the weekend in talks to prepare the findings before the next meeting of the ALP national executive.

But there are growing fears it could reignite tensions in the party, despite Mr Shorten’s attempts to pre-empt the report by issuing a public mea culpa where he admitted he had too many policies and that the so-called ‘retiree tax’ to reform franking credits had angered seniors.

The New Daily understands the ALP review will find blue-collar workers turned on Labor in a dysfunctional campaign devoid of a clear strategy and a $60 million Clive Palmer advertising binge.

It will consider calling for caps on election expenditure in the future.

Despite former prime minister Paul Keating’s claim that Mr Shorten failed to connect with the middle class, it’s the Labor Party’s working-class base that voted against proposals to slash tax concessions for negative gearing and franking credits.

Conversely, voters in inner metropolitan areas and white-collar jobs were more likely to back Mr Shorten’s calls for a crackdown on tax concessions for the rich, and action on climate change.

Early drafts of the ALP review, led by former SA Premier Jay Weatherill and former trade minister Craig Emerson, were highly critical of Mr Shorten.

Dr Emerson, who was a minister in the Gillard government, has been directly lobbied to soften some of those criticisms in the interest of party unity.

Union leader Linda White, former Queensland ALP secretary Senator Anthony Chisholm, former NSW assistant secretary John Graham and Lenda Oshalem have also worked on the components of the final report.

Dr Emerson and Mr Weatherill have interviewed Mr Shorten, Mr Keating, MPs, unionists and campaign staff to prepare the final report.

The Liberal Party’s own review, led by Australia’s next ambassador to the US Senator Arthur Sinodinos has also found Mr Shorten was a drag on the vote.

“What it finds is he was clearly an asset for us, rather than an asset for Labor,” Senator Sinodinos told The New Daily.

“His performance reinforced reservations people had about him. For example, appearing not to want to explain the cost of his climate change. In the case of blue-collar workers, economic management was a big issue.

“We noticed a spike in support when the budget came out. We were getting the budget back into surplus.”

Underlining questions over Mr Albanese’s leadership there is emerging chatter among MPs about a future leadership team of Queensland’s Jim Chalmers and former deputy leader Tanya Plibersek.

Mr Albanese has angered unions and some of his own MPs with a “mistake that will not be forgotten” by backing the Coalition on several new free trade deals.

The battle over the new deals with Indonesia, Peru and Hong Kong has sparked warnings of an influx of foreign workers that unions say will put pressure on wages.

Australian Council of Trade Unions president Michele O’Neil has slammed the decision as anti-jobs.

“They’ve made a mistake that will not be forgotten by Australian workers,’” she said.

“The decision by the ALP to side with the government is an abandonment both of their own platform, and of their responsibility to stand up for fair trade deals which deliver jobs for local workers, that protect Australia’s public services, sovereignty and visa workers from exploitation and that ensure international laboir standards in the countries we trade with.”

ETU Victoria released a savage new advertisement on social media after the decision, depicting Mr Albanese as a puppet.

“13 million working Australians are screaming out for politicians to stand up for them and their families. Sadly, however, Albo has shown it’s just too hard for him,” ETU Victoria secretary Troy Gray said.

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Reply #13 - Oct 20th, 2019 at 1:08am
 
When did Shorten be seen accepting an ALDI bag?

Fair's fair - I mean he's a dill for following uni quadrangle sidewalk latte` cafe Labor with its feminist etc addiction ... and he's obviously just another Labor clown full of triteness and a desire to self-promote and self-advance to riches  generational out of the public purse....

But when was he ever caught out accepting a bribe donation?

Come in, spinner.....
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Reply #14 - Oct 20th, 2019 at 6:12pm
 
It was only recently I saw something that said Shady Shorten was being inextricable trapped in the spider's web of the intricacies of the Chinese Bribes which are financing the Unions and Labor.

In fact there is a photo of Shady Shorten at a meeting with the Chinese Bribes Organizers.

In fact the unions are coming to rely on Chinese Bribes to keep them afloat as they have almost NO members anymore and the trap is closing on SUPER funds misuse.

DARK or YELLOW days ahead for the devious Unions and the Chinese Labor Party.


And now links have been proven that show Chinese Bribes are ALSO going to the FEDERAL Chinese Labor Party!!   Shady Shorty will be next.



Chris Bowen and Chris Minns in spotlight over six-figure donation from Beijing-linked association
By Dylan Welch and Echo Hui, ABC Investigations Updated 12 Jun 2019, 6:45am

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PHOTO: Three men standing with their arms around each other in front of Chinese dragons. Labor politicians Chris Minns, Chris Bowen and Sam Dastyari at an event in 2015. (Facebook: Chris Minns)

RELATED STORY: $100,000 in donations quarantined amid Labor corruption probe
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RELATED STORY: Chinese donors to Australian political parties: who gave how much?

A rising Labor star running for leadership of the NSW party received a $5,000 "moving expenses" payment as part of a six-figure donation to Labor by an association linked to a Sydney businessman with deep links to the Chinese Communist Party, the ABC can reveal.

Key points:
According to an ALP invoice, the $5,000 payment was taken out of a $100,000 donation from a community association run by Frank Chou to Labor's federal health spokesman Chris Bowen in 2013

Mr Chou is one of Sydney's highest profile Chinese-Australian businessmen and has abiding connections to Beijing's influence-peddling machine, the United Front Works Department

He tells the ABC the donation may have been made of behalf of one or more "businessmen friends", which could be a breach of federal electoral law

The $5,000 payment to Labor MP Chris Minns also raised questions for Labor's federal health spokesman Chris Bowen, who was the beneficiary of the $100,000 donation from which Mr Minns's payment was drawn.

The donation and payment were the latest in a series of disturbing allegations regarding Chinese Communist Party influence exerted over Australian politicians via large donations from Beijing-backed businessmen, including the occasional payment of politicians' personal expenses.

Two party insiders described the payment as unusual, while others said the airing of old incidents was an example of how toxic the NSW branch of the Labor Party has become as it chooses a new parliamentary leader.


Mr Minns is running against fellow Labor MP Jodi McKay for leadership of the NSW parliamentary party, promising a "fresh approach".

The results of a leadership ballot will be known later this month.

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The donation and payment were discussed internally by the Labor Party but remained confidential for six years, until the ABC recently obtained a pair of internal ALP invoices.

The invoices detailed the $100,000 donation to Mr Bowen's 2013 re-election campaign in the federal seat of McMahon, and the subsequent $5,000 payment to Mr Minns.


Read the full story of this explosive revelation of deep corruption in the Chinese Labor Party here

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Now the corruption scandals of the Chinese Bribing the Chinese Labor Party are being noted overseas.


In Australia, Fears of Chinese Meddling Rise on U.N. Bribery Case Revelation
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Chau Chak Wing, center right, in 2015 at the opening of a University of Technology Sydney building that bears his name. Dr. Chau is accused of bribing a United Nations diplomat. Credit James Brickwood/Fairfax


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A billionaire businessman, previously accused of meddling in Australia’s politics on behalf of China, conspired to bribe a prominent United Nations diplomat, an Australian politician said on Tuesday, raising new concerns about China’s efforts to interfere in democracies worldwide.

Andrew Hastie, chairman of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, identified the businessman, Chau Chak Wing, as the person in a 2015 bribery case previously called only Co-conspirator No. 3.

“CC-3 is Dr. Chau Chak Wing,” Mr. Hastie said in a speech in the Australian Parliament’s Federation Chamber, adding, “The same man who co-conspired to bribe the U.N. president of the General Assembly, John Ashe.”

He continued, “The same man with extensive contacts in the Chinese Communist Party, including the United Front.”


In a criminal complaint filed in 2015, American prosecutors said several conspirators had paid John W. Ashe, an Antiguan diplomat and former president of the United Nations General Assembly, more than $1 million in luxury goods and cash from sources in China to assist with business deals.

Several people accused in the complaint were named, and the Australian news media had suggested in the past that Co-conspirator No. 3 was Dr. Chau. But his identity as the co-conspirator was confirmed only Tuesday.

Dr. Chau, a well-connected political donor in Australia, has also sued news organizations that he says have wrongly linked him to the bribery case. Mr. Hastie said he sought to issue a broader warning about China’s interference in Australian politics and the press.

“In Australia, it is clear that the Chinese Communist Party is working to covertly interfere with our media, our universities and also influence our political processes and public debates,” Mr. Hastie said.


Mr. Hastie’s speech is likely to fuel a global debate about China’s efforts to shape opinions and policy in the world’s democracies and democratic institutions.


Several Australian politicians have accused China of meddling in its politics. Australia’s intelligence chief identified Dr. Chau, an Australian citizen, in June as a possible agent of the Chinese government.

Duncan Lewis, the director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, warned politicians against accepting contributions from Dr. Chau and another man of Chinese descent because of their ties to China’s government.


Dr. Chau, a billionaire property developer who immigrated to Australia decades ago, has said his campaign contributions are benign and unrelated to the Chinese government. He could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.

Dr. Chau is chairman of the Kingold Group, a business conglomerate based in Guangzhou, China, that has expanded to Australia. His name graces the modernist Dr. Chau Chak Wing Building at the University of Technology Sydney, to which he donated $15 million. The Chau family also owns New Express Daily, an Australian newspaper.

Dr. Chau filed a defamation suit last year aimed at two Australian news media companies: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the national broadcaster, and Fairfax Media, a newspaper publisher. He has sought damages from them for a news report that the suit says damaged his personal and professional reputation.

In his speech, Mr. Hastie argued that Dr. Chau was trying to silence the press.

“My concern is that defamation cases can have a chilling effect on our free press,” Mr. Hastie said. “Any attempt to silence our media from telling the truth — provided it is the truth — through a defamation claim cannot stand.”

In the speech, Mr. Hastie said Australians “deserve the truth.”

Since the accusations of political meddling, Australia has taken steps to curb foreign interference. A series of bills introduced in December would strengthen the country’s espionage laws, outlaw foreign political donations and criminalize efforts to interfere in Australian democracy.



Read more of the chilling revelations of the Chinese strangle hold on the defeated Chinese Labor Party here

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/world/australia/bribery-un-china-chau-chak-wi...
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Wait until the LNP get sucked into this bottomless hole of 'donations' .....

Remember Joh... JOH.. we do things diff'runtly up here in Queenslund, you mark my words...  just.. ahhh.. just leave your donation in a brown paper bag under the table....

Then there all those LNP characters seen in the presence of the SAME CHINKERS - all big 'donors' and look how many of the pr1cks hold seats and run local branches of parties........ just business as normal in the Middle Kingdom ... them Hobbits have a habit of offering donations .. just costs of doing business...
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A look back at what and why the Chinese Commo Party was doing to try to get their Chinese Labor Party elected here.




Why the Chinese Communist Party is backing Labor
By Houses and Holes in Australian Politicsat 9:15 am on May 14, 2019

Via the AFR:

China sees a potential change of government in Australia as a chance to reset the bilateral relationship, which soured under former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull as concerns around security overshadowed the economic benefits.

…”We would like new government to overturn the previous ruling on banning Huawei. It requires political wisdom to achieve it,” says Chen Hong, director of the Australian Studies Centre at Shanghai’s East China Normal University.

“It is true that Labor Party leaders in the past made significant contributions to improve the China-Australia relationship. There was some turmoil under Kevin Rudd’s leadership, but the bilateral relationship wasn’t as bad as it is now.


The bilateral relationship is just fine where it is and does nor require reset. Via Stan Grant at the ABC:

Take this assessment: the risk of war between China and America is now “unacceptably high”. That’s the warning from Peter Jennings, head of ASPI, a former prime ministerial adviser and ex-deputy secretary of the Defence Department, not one given to hype.

The potential for conflict, Mr Jennings said, is at 5 per cent. Don’t breathe too easily — we are a miscalculation, a misunderstanding or an accident away from that 5 per cent escalating to the point where neither side could back down.

The US-based RAND Corporation has mapped a US-China war in a report it called “Thinking through the Unthinkable”. As China continues to boost its firepower, “the United States can no longer be so certain that war would lead to decisive victory”, the report said.

Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst at ASPI, reminded us that Xi Jinping is on track to completely modernise the People’s Liberation Army within the next 20 years, to make it a world-class force.

He also told us that the threat is not just here on earth, but in the skies. China’s 2015 defence white paper said that “outer space has become a commanding height in international strategic competition … and the first signs of weaponisation of outer space have appeared”.

China wants to become a space-fighting superpower and it has carried out numerous tests of its counterspace capabilities.

Who controls space, controls earth. Malcolm Davis warned of the risks of a “space Pearl Harbor” — a surprise first-strike “designed to eliminate US and allied space-based strategic satellites, leaving their terrestrial forces deaf, dumb and blind”.

Conflict is only one scenario, what about the prospects for China’s economy? The good news is China is still growing: compared with the rest of the world’s major economies it is still remarkable. But there are doubts about how truthful the figures are — is Beijing cooking the books? — and in any case the growth is slowing, now below the 7 per cent mark that China has seen as essential.

Credit is the big risk, as Josh Rudolph, formerly of the International Monetary Fund and US Treasury, wrote last year:

“China has incurred the largest debt build-up in recorded economic history — and the prognosis is not good. The International Monetary Fund surveyed five-year credit booms near the size of China’s and found that essentially all such cases ended in major growth slowdowns and half also collapsed into financial crises.”

Stephen Joske, a former Australian Treasury economist who also served in the Australian embassy in Beijing, told us that China’s economy is fuelled by unsustainable credit, with a “very high probability” of a financial crisis within three to five years.


The last point is a big yawn. What is inevitable is stagnation which is good and bad news for Australia. Good because it will slow China’s catch-up military. Bad because it will turn the CCP even more hostile to external forces to sure-up legitimacy at home.

Finally, the CCP is at least being fair about it, via Domain:

The Chinese Communist Party has sought to build ties to candidates in the upcoming federal election, including in a critical Victorian seat that will help determine the next government.

Chinese language documents have revealed the ALP’s Jennifer Yang and the Liberal Party’s Gladys Liu — who are contesting the eastern Melbourne electorate of Chisholm — have both attended events and been involved in groups backed by the Chinese government.

The groups seek to push the Communist Party’s agenda throughout the Chinese diaspora.


Either explicitly divide the diaspora from the CCP or cut immigration. It can’t be both. Yet Labor is aiming for just that.

Read the disquieting rest about the Chinese Commo Party takeover of the Chinese Labor Party here.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/05/chinese-communist-party-backing-labor/
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The TRUTH exposed here is enough to make a Socialist sob.

When will the 2 now irrelevant parties, Labor and the Greenies, unite into the new Garbo Party ?




Labor Now A Party Of Capitulation And Parliamentary Irrelevance
By Ben Eltham on July 10, 2019Australian Politics

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Opposition leader, Anthony Albanese. (IMAGE: Nic MacBean, Flickr)

These are dark days for the Australian left, writes Ben Eltham.

Anyone who thinks that elections don’t matter would do well to observe the smoking ruins of Australian social democracy this week, in the wake of Scott Morrison’s tax cuts.

As the Coalitions staggering $158 billion tax cut sailed through the Parliament last week , we caught a glimpse of a newer, stranger and grimmer Australia, a nation even more divided and unequal than we feared.

Seven weeks ago, Australia seemed headed towards a Shorten Labor government. The ALP had an ambitious policy agenda to make Australia fairer and more equal, winding back tax subsidies to the rich and investing heavily in health and education. Labor’s vision wasn’t exactly democratic socialism, but it was certainly a cautious step towards repairing the damage wrought by three decades of neoliberalism.

Less than two months and a surprise election victory later, Scott Morrison’s Coalition has just delivered one of the largest upward redistributions in modern Australian history.

What do the tax cuts mean? In the short term, voters get a handy tax rebate that will stimulate the ailing domestic economy. In the longer term, the passage of the massive tax bill heralds a new era of flat taxes in this country, pointing the way to a level of inequality that will make the discontents and resentments of the 2019 election look like kindergarten spats.

The tax cuts voted through this week will flatten Australia’s tax system in ways that few voters understand, but which will slowly and inexorably grind away what’s left of Australia’s communal life. Tens of billions of dollars of tax cuts will be handed to the wealthiest in our society. A ticking time bomb has also been set to detonate underneath the federal budget in 2024. If the Coalition is still in power, it will use it to slash Commonwealth spending to social services, ripping the guts out of education and Medicare, and further rending Australia’s threadbare social safety net.

The rich will get richer – much richer. They will use the extra disposable income to buy bigger houses, better holidays, and more expensive private schooling for their pampered children. For the well-to-do, times will be good. They will enjoy the last decades of a dying planet happily ensconced in a golden cage of conspicuous consumption.

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Above: Grattan Institute analysis of the Coalition’s tax cut package. Most of the benefit accrues to wealthy Australians, especially in the top 20% of taxpayers.

On the other hand, the everyday life of the poor will worsen. Growth will remain sluggish and jobs scarce and increasingly insecure and casualised. The rent poorer Australians pay to absent landlords will keep ratcheting upwards, while a punitive government punishes anyone unlucky enough to claim welfare benefits.

The middle classes will be further hollowed out. Middle income earners will be squeezed between anaemic economic growth and spiralling economic inequality, struggling under massive mortgages in the futile dream of one day obtaining financial independence, all the while haunted by the ease with which all can slide away.

None of this will come to pass quickly. But then again, it’s not meant to. The tax cuts are a timeline, a direction towards which the Australian polity is being steered. The third stage of the Coalition’s tax cuts are scheduled for 2024. By then, those earning $200,000 a year will get a whopping $11,000 a year tax cut. Those on $45,000 will get just a few hundred. Those on minimum wage will get nothing – no tax cut at all.

The terrifying ease with which the tax cuts sailed through the House and the Senate last week shows clearly who holds the power in the new Parliament.

Morrison’s victory means a government committed to governing for the middle- and upper classes (minus the noisy progressive bits), and most importantly vested interests in business.

This week’s 4 Corners revelations about the scale of corporate water theft in Australia’s Murray-Darling is just the most obvious aspect.

Business will also now get its wishes granted in areas like industrial relations, where further assaults on unions and the rights of workers are planned, in property, where the tax breaks of landlords and developers will be protected, and in banking, where the big banks will be protected from any meaningful reform.



Read the rest of the sob story of Labor's decline and Fall here

https://newmatilda.com/2019/07/10/labor-now-a-party-of-capitulation-and-parliame...
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