“Double agent” Gladys Liu stonewalls national interest questions

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Via the Herald Sun:

Embattled Liberal MP Gladys Liu held a party for the volunteers on her successful campaign for the seat of Chisholm at a building owned by a property developer who once said Australia “couldn’t survive” without Chinese migrants.

…The revelations came as Ms Liu refused to outline the complete list of organisations she was previously a member of that were linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

The Hong Kong-born MP instead said she was “confident” she was no longer linked to any organisations with “inappropriate associations”.

…However, she did not respond to a series of questions from the Herald Sun about her previous associations with the United Chinese Commerce Association, Australian Jiangmen General Commercial Association and Federation of Chinese Associations in Victoria.

Peter Dutton once described Sam Dastayari as a “double agent” for far less. And he resigned plus answered all questions. How is it appropriate that Ms Liu just stone walls the only questions that matter?

It’s not. But she holds the Morrison Government’s majority in the palm of her hand so here we are. You would have to be barking mad not to wonder what favours she is extracting for her CCP-associated donors in return.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.