Australian Politics

Dear Mr President, This week the Prime Minister of Australia, Scott Morrison, will attend a state dinner at the White House.

Still more fallout from Chinese influence today, this time Labor, at Domain: A NSW Labor MP, who is linked to pro-China community organisations, hired a staffer who completed a propaganda training course in Beijing run by the Chinese Communist Party.

Here is the full Scott Morrison treason smash from Andrew Bolt: Meanwhile, the political economy is melting down as the Morrison Government desperately tries to hang onto its parliamentary majority.

Via Domain: Forget blue or white collar workers – our society is now broken down by the size of our investment housing portfolio.

Deary me, Simon Benson: Anthony Albanese’s tactical attack on Liberal MP Gladys Liu is at risk of backfiring horribly.

The pretense that everything is OK in Australian democracy has cracked open and fallen on the floor.

OMG, this is a poor look: Enjoy your White House dinner with that in the kit bag, ScoMo.

Because he desperately needs to chill, via the AFR: It is a demand that Scott Morrison is bound to hear again when he turns up for his state dinner at the White House in Washington next week.

Via The Age: International students have been banned from contesting student elections at one of Victoria’s most prestigious universities, in a move to stop a group of Chinese students seizing control of the student union.

Via the ABC: Liberal backbencher Gladys Liu is being urged to address Parliament about multiple claims of her association with China’s foreign influence operations.

Via Domain: Labor senator Kimberley Kitching and Victorian Liberal MP Kevin Andrews intend to establish the Parliamentary Friends of Democratic Hong Kong group, calling for the protection of democracy in Hong Kong and promoting a peaceful end to the violence.

A private members bill sponsored by the Greens that calls for the introduction of a federal anti-corruption commission was passed by the Senate on 9 September.

Labor heavyweight Mark Butler gave Wayne Swan a boot yesterday: “When you get your backside handed to you by Fozzie Bear and Kermit the Frog, it’s time for some serious reflection.

The Victorian Government and the Melbourne City Council are at war over whether congestion charging should be implemented across the inner-city in a bid to improve traffic flow.

Via New Daily: The Australian horticultural sector is one of the most at-risk industries for modern slavery.

Via The Australian comes Newspoll: An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows Mr Albanese suffering a six-point slide in popularity amid a divisive debate over the case of a Sri Lankan asylum-seeker family facing deportation.

No doubt about it, Labor is committed to twenty years in opposition.

Via the Coalition’s apologist, The Australian: Nine Entertainment chief executive Hugh Marks hosted a $10,000-a-head Liberal Party fundraising event on the set of the network’s Today show, prompting an angry backlash from the company’s newspaper journalists.

I’m afraid it’s true.

So asks an angry Hongkie at the ABC today: Before I returned to my birthplace, Hong Kong, to pursue my legal career 18 years ago, I spent 15 years growing up in Melbourne, during which I was an Australian Labor Party supporter.

Cross-posted from Independent Australia: At the May Federal Election, Labor and the Greens overbid the already-high Coalition position on immigration and population.