A pro-Beijing Liberal candidate has taken out ads in a Chinese-language newspaper urging voters with the same ethnic background to elect ‘one of their own people’.
Peter Zhuang, a 51-year-old property developer and company director, is representing the Liberal National Party at this Saturday’s Queensland state election in the southern Brisbane seat of Stretton, which has a high concentration of voters with a Chinese background.
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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.
