Your Assistant Treasurer (and Minister for Housing) looking pretty matey with someone who may have allegiances to another nation. Australians need to look at just who is funding Australian political processes, and who else’s interests are being served by any such funding.
YET ANOTHER SECURITY ISSUE OVER AN AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN & SOMEONE WITH ACCESS TO THEM
2021 already looks a lot like 2020 when it comes to China and Australia. Starting with this week’s revelation that yet another Chinese ex-soldier has an array of links within the Australian government and has provided funding:
A Melbourne-based Chinese businessman who has aligned himself to prominent Liberal Party MPs is facing deportation after being assessed by ASIO as a national security risk, an ABC investigation can reveal.
The businessman, Huifeng “Haha” Liu, is a Liberal Party donor and former soldier in China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who developed links with federal Liberal MP Gladys Liu and Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar.
Mr Liu is contesting the deportation order after the Federal Government rejected his application for permanent residency when security concerns were raised.
This is after Sam Dastayari was caught having chats with people under investigation by Australian security services about the potential for their phones being tapped and then leaving parliament back 2017. This follows an election which brought Gladys Liu to the Australian Parliament off the back Chinese language signage designed to look like Australian Electoral Commission in 2019. This follows endless reports of senior people on both sides of Australian politics, and both the ALP and Liberal Parties, receiving very large amounts of funding from foreign sources – with about 80% of that foreign funding coming from China.
This is after China, on a range of spurious pretexts spent most of the year banning imports of Australian barley, beef, wine, coal, lobster & timber. Those pretexts included (depending on your source of information)…..
Calling for an investigation into the origins of COVID19:- ……..like hello! Is there a single person in the developed world who would NOT be expecting that there be an investigation into the origins, vectors of transmission, and national response to the advent of COVID19, as well as the societal and economic shortcomings the advent of the virus has exposed? All the more so in nations like Australia where it appears that companies connected to the Chinese state were buying up personal protective supplies and shipping them to China, while the official message was that they had the virus, which first erupted into public consciousness at least in Wuhan, China, under control.
That was a 90 tonnes shipment of Anti virus gear which was shipped to China by a Chinese Australian property developer at the request of the Chinese government
and
Australians supporting the right to Freedom of Passage through the South China Sea:- …..after a Permanent Court of Arbitration Tribunal convened under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea rejected China’s claims to a ‘nine dash line’ through seas also claimed by Vietnam, Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, meaning the subsequent building of military facilities on some reefs in the region is an act of confrontation with the nations which also have competing claims in the area, and with the world’s dispute resolution processes. In this particular issue, Australia’s official position, notwithstanding the occasional exhortation by politicians who have been paid to exhort the pro-China line, has been to support peaceful resolution, and international law.
Like, What the almighty F#&$….
This is after Australia was raking over elected representatives just a few short years ago for having potential allegiances to other nations in breach of our Constitution!!….. Like the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Italy!
These are nations which have never posed a threat to Australia. Nations which don’t block Australian imports. Nations which don’t detain Australian journalists. Nations where Australian consular officials can get access to any Australians. Nations where Australians can buy real estate. Nations where the the legal system amounts to something which is recognised by our legal system as being something more than the whim of an unknown official. Nations where questions about events and peoples in those nations are not dismissed as ‘internal meddling’.
None of those nations have security officials traipsing around at student demonstrations in Australia noting who is there or letting them know they know where their families are. None of those nations send gangs of thugs to try and beat up Australian students for protesting in Australian universities about circumstances in those nations.
After so much overt evidence that the Chinese approach to a range of issues is so radically different from Australia’s, and that the Australian people’s expectations of what would otherwise seem reasonable needs to make an exception for something happening in China, is it that much to ask that our politicians not take funding from China?
Given that such a large chunk of the foreign funding for Australian politicians comes from just one nation, which doesn’t recognise dual citizenship of its nationals where they have Australian citizenship, is it that much to ask that our politicians refuse donations from any dual nationals who have Chinese nationality, in addition to Australian citizenship, who offer donations?
Like, What the almighty F#&$….
It is time for a Royal Commission into all funding of Australian politicians, and all funding of Australian political parties, however direct or indirect, which is in any way connected with China, and into what effect such funding has had over the past decade – in terms of public pronouncements, and the determination of Australian public policy. In the same way it is now time to ask every last one of our elected representatives – at Commonwealth and State levels:
- Can you assure your voters that you have never sought or received direct funding as an individual from Chinese state sources?
- Can your party assure the Australian electorate that they have never sought or received funding as an organisation from Chinese state sources?
- Can you assure your voters that you do not seek or accept direct funding from Australian citizens where these are dual national citizens, and the non Australian nationality does not accept dual citizenship?
- Can your party assure the Australian electorate that they do not seek or accept funding from Australian citizens where these are dual national citizens, and the non Australian nationality does not accept dual citizenship?
Meanwhile back at the neighbourhood watch…..
The ABC piece also contained another factoid of staggering incredulity:
Mr Liu told the ABC he believed ASIO had assessed him as a security risk because he was the president of a popular Australian-Chinese neighbourhood watch organisation which had an agreement to take instructions from the Chinese consulate in Melbourne.
Why on Earth would any Australian neighbourhood watch organisation ‘take instructions’ from a Chinese consulate? Are there any Chinese neighbourhood watch organisations who ‘take instructions’ from an Australian consulate? Are there any neighbourhood watch organisations anywhere else on the planet who ‘take instructions’ from an Australian consulate? And what on Earth would be the purpose of any organisation in Australia to ‘take instruction’ from the Chinese consulate? To create (or intimidate?) in the minds of local Chinese-Australians the thought that the local Chinese consulate represents some other basis of power in the land in which they live – somehow beyond Australia police, regulatory authorities? To make sure the local aspiring ‘wolf wanker’ is up to speed and has suitable bullying platform?
So lets add 5 questions for our elected representatives:
- Can you assure your voters that you have never sought or received direct funding as an individual from Chinese state sources?
- Can your party assure the Australian electorate that they have never sought or received funding as an organisation from Chinese state sources?
- Can you assure your voters that you do not seek or accept direct funding from Australian citizens where these are dual national citizens, and the non Australian nationality does not accept dual citizenship?
- Can your party assure the Australian electorate that they do not seek or accept funding from Australian citizens where these are dual national citizens, and the non Australian nationality does not accept dual citizenship?
- Do you believe it appropriate for any public or community organisations in Australia to ‘take instruction’ from any consulate regarding activities in Australia?
It is time for our politicians to tell us where they stand.
Enough is enough.