Labor is in trouble on China:
Senior Labor frontbencher Tony Burke defended Mr Shorten’s decision to visit Mr Huang’s house, saying he understood the advice from security agencies in 2015 did not canvass knocking back donations.
“The security briefings have strengthened over time and the critical issue out of those briefings was to stop taking donations from particular individuals,” he told the ABC.
“As the security advice strengthened Labor took a decision that the Government still hasn’t taken that for the people who had concerns raised about them we would stop taking donations from them, even if that put us at a disadvantage.”
Mr Burke said Mr Huang was a significant donor to both sides of politics and would appear at community functions.
True, but two acts treason do not make a patriot. And the Government is not running around defending Chinese interests all over like Labor is.
Once ASIO had warned, it was obviously reckless not say dubious to seek further contact let alone funding, unless one’s values don’t see it that way.
And that is the problem.
