And quite rightly, via The Australian:
Scott Morrison has lashed out at Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews for signing a secret infrastructure deal with China.
The Prime Minister said today that he was “surprised” that Victoria had decided to sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative without consulting the Commonwealth, and broke with his foreign minister and trade minister over the Commonwealth’s role in such deals.
…“They’re the responsibilities of the Commonwealth government and I would have hoped that the Victorian government would have taken a more cooperative approach to that process.”
Mr Andrews has been under pressure to release his secret memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government.
Time to release it. Let’s understand who were the movers and shakers were as well. Former premier John Brumby is now head of the Australia/China Business Council and a director at Huawei. What was his involvement?
Morrison is spot on. The cloak and dagger must end and the deal itself is inappropriate.
