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Gladys Liu's Liberal Party branch called to relax foreign investment laws before she became federal MP
Updated 17 minutes ago

PHOTO Gladys Liu has faced a week of scrutiny over her links to Chinese Government-affiliated organisations. AAP: MICK TSIKAS
Gladys Liu's Liberal Party branch pushed an unusual motion within the Liberal Party to relax foreign investment laws prior to her becoming a federal MP.
At the 2017 Victorian Liberal Party conference, the party's Eastern Multicultural Branch, of which Ms Liu was the president, proposed a motion that would make foreign investment in agribusiness and agricultural land easier without approval by the Foreign Investment Review Board.
It also accused public attitudes toward foreign investment as being driven by xenophobia.
The motion, obtained by the ABC, called for the raising of the $15 million screening threshold for agricultural land and the $55 million threshold for agribusiness. Any investment above these levels must be approved by the board.
"The current screening thresholds are too low and create unnecessary bureaucracy and costs when dealing with foreign investment," the motion read.
"The capital value of agricultural land and agribusiness investments particularly in Northern Australia are well above these thresholds and need to be set at levels that will allow normal transactions to proceed.
The threshold for agricultural land remains at $15 million, while the threshold for agribusiness has subsequently been raised to $58 million.
The motion also called for the Federal Government to "address the xenophobia that is current in the Australian community regarding foreign investment".
The ABC could not confirm whether the motion was carried or voted down. Ms Liu did not respond to questions about why the motion was put forward.
Motion was out of step with party attitudes

PHOTO Prime Minister Scott Morrison has supported Gladys Liu throughout her controversial first few months as an MP. ABC NEWS: LUKE STEPHENSON
The subject of foreign investment in agricultural land and agribusiness has been the subject of fierce debate.
In 2015, the Federal Government, then led by Tony Abbott, toughened its approach to foreign investment, slashing the threshold for approval of foreign investment in agricultural land from $252 million to $15 million.
Six months before the motion was moved at the Victorian Liberal conference, then deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce gave a speech to the National Farmers Federation in which he warned foreign ownership of agricultural land was a threat to patriotism and national sovereignty.
Ms Liu's membership in a number of organisations linked to the Chinese Government's propaganda and foreign influence efforts have been the subject of furious debate this week.
Ms Liu has admitted being a member of some organisations, but suggested that she might have been appointed to positions without her knowledge.
Ms Liu has also held honorary positions in a number of other organisations linked to the Chinese government's United Front activities, which seek to expand its influence in foreign countries.
Ms Liu has previously said she was an honorary chairman of one of these organisations because of her desire to facilitate trade between Australia and Hong Kong.
The ABC also revealed that Ms Liu had failed to disclose her membership of any of these groups when she ran for preselection for the seat of Chisholm, which she won at the last federal election.
In her preselection application, she boasted of having raised more than $1 million for the Liberal Party at a series of dinners where VIP guests bought seats for $1,000 each.
However, in February 2018, ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis gave advice that then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull should not attend a function organised by Ms Liu in Chisholm because of concerns about the guests invited to the event.
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Gladys Liu controversy holds a potent reminder for Scott Morrison, but is he listening? - Politics

PHOTO Scott Morrison celebrates with Gladys Liu after her first speech in Federal Parliament. ABC NEWS: LUKE STEPHENSON
It has been dark days for the Labor Party since the federal election; physically getting through the shock of a loss, trying to absorb just what message the election result gives it for where it goes next.
Everyone has advice for the new leader Anthony Albanese about what he should be doing, or not doing.
And if that wasn't hard enough, there is the spectre of the ICAC hearings in NSW, with all the seedy revelations about money in plastic bags, and people with dodgy recollections of events.
A smug Government went into that rarity of 2019 — an actual parliamentary sitting — this week boasting of how it was going to wedge Labor.
"I like to set them tests when we come back to Parliament,'' the Prime Minister told the NSW Liberal state council last weekend.
"Because I'm just trying to help. I know they're struggling to work out who they are and what they're about, so I just thought I should ask them a few questions every time we come to Parliament."
The obsession with Labor must have looked good on paper; kick 'em while they are down, throw out a few "values" messages along the way about dole bludgers and being tough on sex offenders.
When as a government you don't have a huge agenda of your own, and the economy is wobbly, the strategy might make sense.
But whatever the flaws of our Parliament, it rarely allows best-laid plans to play out as intended.
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Scott Morrison lambasts Labor over Gladys Liu questions
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The week ended with not so much focus on Labor's problems as the thorny issues surrounding Government MP Gladys Liu — with her past associations with organisations linked to the Chinese Communist Party and her staggering capacity to raise funds for the Liberal Party.
While the spectre of Chinese interference raised by Ms Liu's past connections raises troubling issues, the extraordinary amounts of money she was able to raise from the Chinese community for the Liberal Party should not be overlooked amid the frisson about intelligence agency warnings and national security questions.
You don't have to look further than Ms Liu's own sales pitch to the Liberal Party for evidence of that fundraising capacity.
On Thursday, the ABC published extracts of Ms Liu's preselection application to the party.
In the application, Ms Liu claimed to have raised more than $1 million for the Liberal Party by organising functions or bringing guests to fundraising dinners.
At a function in October 2015 she said she supplied guests for five VIP tables at a total cost of $50,000. Those guests then bid for auction items, which Ms Liu said helped the dinner exceed its estimated revenue by $400,000.
At an April 2016 federal election dinner, Ms Liu said she supplied 10 VIP tables that raked in $100,000 for the Liberal Party and "introduced high-value business and community leaders".
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Apart from anything else, Ms Liu's job application shows her at the least as a more than competent and determined political operator — and a long way removed from the picture of a victim who had overcome obstacles being painted of her by the Prime Minister at the end of the week.
There are plenty of other anecdotes about other big fundraising events, though the mystery is always how you tally them against the much more benign-looking formats of disclosure on the Australian Electoral Commission website.
Apart from anything else, of course, the spectre of oodles of political donations— even if legitimately documented and recorded — raises the question of what people think they are buying with such huge amounts of money.
And in turn, that makes the underlying question of what has been happening in the Liberal Party in Victoria not all that different from NSW, even if there have not been Aldi plastic bags full of cash involved.
And here we are, once again, back at the point where both major political parties are compromised and a federal integrity commission is still not a first-order issue.

PHOTO Anthony Albanese is one of the sharpest parliamentary tacticians of recent times. ABC NEWS: ADAM KENNEDYA different worldview
It may not come as a surprise to you to discover that politicians see the world differently to the way you do. They see different opportunities. They see the power of imagery and tactics differently too.
Nowhere is that more true than on the floor of the Parliament.
So when Mr Albanese asked the Prime Minister a question on Tuesday about the Energy Minister, Angus Taylor, and his apparent failure to declare that he was representing his own private interests when lobbying the Environment Department on an issue, Mr Morrison unleashed on the Opposition Leader.
"Not only is every assertion that he's just put to this place totally and absolutely false, but the Liberal Party and the National Party will not be lectured by someone who used to work in the NSW branch of the Labor Party", he yelled.
"He had a desk in the office in the Sussex Street headquarters of a party that stinks of corruption, where they get money in plastic bags and count it out on the table."
And so it went on amid general uproar.
"With the number of Labor Party members from the NSW division who used to serve in Senator Keneally's former government that are in jail, you could establish a branch of the Labor Party at the Silverwater prison", Mr Morrison continued.
The conversation across the table between leaders amid such uproar is usually unheard or recorded, but is always enlightening.
Yes, Mr Albanese did work at Sussex Street. But he was the assistant secretary from the ALP Left, in an organisation which has seen the party's Right in all its most unattractive forms, dominate for decades.
Just surviving that experience sets you up for almost any other form of bruising political encounter and Mr Albanese just egged the Prime Minister on as he yelled in the House of Representatives the other day.
"You really want to do this," was the import of the message, "because we are better at this than you are".
Labor counts it as a win
From Labor's perspective, Mr Morrison's outburst was a win. The images of an angry, snarling Prime Minister were a rare break in the dorky dad image he has worked so hard to cultivate.
The next day, it chose to ask a series of questions about Ms Liu which it knew would be ruled out of order, and therefore not answered, but which put some of the allegations against the Liberal MP on the parliamentary record.
It was all brutal tactics, just much more savage than Mr Morrison's unwisely telegraphed wedges.
When the odds are stacked against you, you fight where you can. This week has shown the Prime Minister learning that whatever Labor's many woes, he is up against one of the sharpest parliamentary tacticians of recent times.
And the pressure over Ms Liu not only consumes oxygen and blurs distinctions but is a potent reminder that his majority in the Parliament is not as large as the Coalition's post-election hubris would suggest.
If only the Government had something of actual substance to talk about.
Laura Tingle is 7.30's chief political correspondent.
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[tanwahtiu]

OZ Angmoh education system were invented to think one man can make a different to change the world, and the 'I and me' attitude come first.... then not happy start a fight like they did before attack Indian in Melbourne and Lebanese in NSW Cronulla....


Now 2019 want to start another racist fight with China...

 

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Gladys Liu did not disclose membership of Chinese Government-linked organisations before Liberal Party preselection
Updated Thu at 2:19pm

PHOTO Gladys Liu has been under siege over her connections to Chinese Government-affiliated groups. ABC NEWS: ADAM KENNEDY
Besieged Liberal MP Gladys Liu did not disclose her membership of organisations linked to the Chinese Government's foreign interference operations when she ran for preselection for the federal seat she now holds.
The ABC has obtained the form Ms Liu submitted during the preselection process for the seat of Chisholm, which she won for the Liberal Party at the last federal election.
All preselection candidates are obliged to fill in a section titled General and Community Activities, where they are supposed to list all organisations of which they are or have been a member or active supporter.
Ms Liu listed 17 different organisations, including the Box Hill Chess Club, the Australian Dancing Society and the Rotary Club of Melbourne. She also made reference to having been an honorary president or adviser to "many community organisations".
She did not, however, declare her council membership of two chapters of an organisation called the China Overseas Exchange Association, which the ABC this week reported were part of the Chinese Government's efforts to spread influence overseas.
The ABC has previously reported that Ms Liu was an honorary chair of two other organisations linked to the Chinese Government's United Front Work propaganda and foreign influence activities — the World Trade United Foundation and the United Chinese Commerce Association of Australia.
In her application for endorsement, Ms Liu did not declare her membership of these two organisations either.

PHOTO Gladys Liu's preselection form that lists her memberships of various organisations, but does not include any of the Chinese Government-affiliated organisations that have emerged in recent weeks. SUPPLIED
Ms Liu released a statement this week in response to the growing furore over her ties to a number of Chinese Government-linked organisations, in which she admitted to having been a member of one chapter of the Chinese Overseas Exchange Association, the United Chinese Commerce Association of Australia and Jiangmen General Commercial Association.
She did not disclose membership of the latter on her preselection application.
As the endorsement application is an internal Liberal Party document, it is unclear whether candidates are obliged to disclose membership of foreign organisations, but Ms Liu disclosed previous membership of some Hong Kong-based community organisations.
In the application, Ms Liu also claims to have raised more than $1 million for the Liberal Party by organising functions or bringing guests to fundraising dinners.
At a function in October 2015 she supplied guests for five VIP tables at a total cost of $50,000. Those guests then bid for auction items, which Ms Liu said helped the dinner exceed its estimated revenue by $400,000.
At an April 2016 federal election dinner, Ms Liu said she supplied 10 VIP tables that raked in $100,000 for the Liberal Party and "introduced high-value business and community leaders".
"The Chinese community naturally shares many of the values of the Liberal Party, including an affinity for hard work, self-reliance and initiative, achievement in business and education, family values and respect for the rules of society," Ms Liu wrote in her accompanying statement.
"But converting these natural values into support for the Liberal Party requires constant, active engagement. The Liberal Party in Victoria currently does not have an MP of Chinese background who can champion it at either federal or state level. If I were to become the first, it could enhance the Party's support in that community across our state."
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Ms Liu says her name may have been added to records without her knowledge (courtesy Sky News: The Bolt Report)
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The debate over Ms Liu's ties to various organisations intensified this week after a bruising interview with Sky News commentator Andrew Bolt, in which Ms Liu claimed to be unaware of her membership of some organisations and struggled to answer other questions.
In the statement she subsequently released she said she had cut ties with "many organisations" and was in the process of auditing any organisations that may have added her as a member without her knowledge or consent.
Ms Liu did not respond to the ABC's request for comment regarding her preselection form.
Posted Thu at 1:48pm

 

[winnipegjets]

You know that in Australia, the Liberal Party is actually the Conservative party?
Labour is the true liberal party.

You are criticizing conservatives, your sisters and brothers in arms, in this thread.

 

[syed putra]

Hongkies will thank her when they move into australia in their millions.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Well, this is the end result of using population growth as the driver of economy in past 20 years starting 2001...

In a dump, yes dumping, to aviod crash in aging population and low birth rate 0.8: 1 to self extinct themselves in 2019 .... like Jesus said sowing seeds ...


And bad tree grows bad fruits....

 

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Gladys Liu's fundraising earned her a place in the Liberal elites, but what do they think of her? - Politics
Updated Fri at 2:51pm

PHOTO Gladys Liu pats a koala at a National Threatened Species Day event at Parliament House. ABC NEWS: ADAM KENNEDY
Gladys Liu is a supreme networker. She's positively brilliant at it.
Just ask the treasurer of the Box Hill Chess Club.
"Gladys is more than a change agent," Trevor Stanning wrote in a reference for Ms Liu's Liberal Party nomination in September last year.
"She brought strategic structure to the aims of the club. The club now dominates the Australian chess scene, winning more Australian championships than any other club."
Domination. Change. A more glowing reference you will not read. Ms Liu was a transformative figure who took a suburban chess club to greatness.
Now it is Ms Liu who has been put in check.
Ms Liu's former colleagues in Victorian Liberal politics do indeed remember her as something of a change agent.
When she worked for then premier Ted Baillieu, she had a business card. One side was in English, the other in Mandarin. Her title was the same.
It said "Chinese Chief of Staff". The title might have chafed with the real chief of staff but what it meant was delivered in dollars. And a lot of them.
A significant force in the Victorian Liberals
Ms Liu has long been a prodigious Victorian Liberal fundraiser in Chinese circles.
She's been quite the genius in this enterprise, a veritable Miss Moneybags to the Liberal Party purse.

PHOTO Scott Morrison has repeatedly dubbed Gladys Liu "a great Australian". ABC NEWS: LUKE STEPHENSON
So much so, that when Denis Napthine replaced Mr Baillieu as Liberal Premier in 2013, and then decided to take a mission to China the year after, it was suggested — strongly — that he take Ms Liu with him.
Why? Because if he didn't, her status in the Chinese community would be diminished and so would her worth to the Liberal coffers.
Mr Napthine did take Ms Liu to China on that trip. But Liberals say she took a less prominent role than she took on trips to China with Mr Baillieu.
But Ms Liu has been a significant force inside the Victorian Liberal Party for 15 years, whether the old-timers knew it or not.
Indeed, she advertised her importance to the Liberals in her application to become candidate for the electorate of Chisholm at the 2019 federal election.
"I have raised over $1 million for the party by organising events both large and small, centrally for the party as well as locally for MPs and candidates," Ms Liu wrote in her Liberal application for endorsement.
She was the One Million Dollar Woman, and reminding the party of it, after two failed bids to become a state parliamentarian.

PHOTO Gladys Liu and a delegation visited Parliament House a year before she became a MP. FACEBOOK: MARY YOU
"They [Labor] have preselected a Chinese-Australian candidate, Jennifer Yang, who has significant political experience and polled strongly to finish second out of 18 candidates in Melbourne Lord Mayor by-election," Ms Liu told preselectors.
"Backed by Labor funds and pork-barrelling, and taking advantage of the fact that many Chinese-Australians are quite unfamiliar with Australian politics, she represents a serious threat.
"If our Labor opponent is able to take Chisholm and build up a base of support among its Chinese community, I believe it would not only make Chisholm more difficult to win back in the future, but would also affect our prospect in neighbouring seats."
Taking on a Labor challenger
Ms Liu weaponised the fact she was Chinese and the changing nature of the Chisholm electorate. She knew the susceptibilities of the Liberal Party and expertly seized the opportunity.
"Nearly 30 per cent of families in Chisholm speak Mandarin or Cantonese at home. Since I can speak fluent English, Mandarin or Cantonese, I will make the most of my language to be an effective voice for the Liberal Party in the Chinese community in Chisholm," she told preselectors.
What Ms Liu offered was gold dust. If extracted, it was invaluable, especially against a formidable Labor candidate like Jennifer Yang.
Did Ms Liu expect to win? Of course, she did. Gladys always believes in Gladys. It's her gift. It drives her.
But did the Liberals believe Ms Liu might win Chisholm should she contest the 2019 federal election?
Now that's a trickier question.
Winning an unlikely election
Opportunity always lies in misfortune. And the Liberals believed fortune lay with Labor last year, after the leadership catastrophe. Preselecting Ms Liu had a big upside. She'd bring in buckets of cash.
But did the Liberals think she'd win Chisholm?
No. The damage done in the Liberals' take-down of Malcolm Turnbull was considerable in Chisholm where Mr Turnbull was popular. The defection of Julia Banks, the Liberal incumbent, had made Chisholm an assumed Labor gain in the federal election.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten was going to be the next prime minister, so in defeat why not go down with your pockets full of money, care of Ms Liu's exceptional contacts?
It seemed a no-brainer to some.

PHOTO Scott Morrison attended Gladys Liu's campaign launch in April, weeks out from the federal election. ABC NEWS: MARCO CATALANO
But other Liberals believed Ms Liu's company would eventually catch up with her.
When ASIO advised Mr Turnbull not to attend a "meet and greet" function in Box Hill in February 2018, it was because of the folk Ms Liu had invited.
At the time, Ms Liu wasn't even the Liberal candidate, just an enthusiastic party member acting in aid of the sitting member.
Exactly who on the A4 list of 30 names had sparked concern with security agencies is not known.
But the list, supplied by Julia Banks at the request of the Prime Minister's Office, had Ms Liu's name on it.
So is Gladys Liu a spy?
Hell no, say Liberals.
"She's the get-ahead girl. She's intelligent, she networks furiously, she's ambitious. It's all about Gladys," says one.
Another says: "Gladys is no Chinese agent. Does she have the wrong friends? No doubt."
Posted Fri at 12:15pm

 

[tanwahtiu]

Good for her. She was brought up from young one man can make a different or change the world....

She is there to change all MPs ro Chinese,

Chinese Only, All white men disallowed....

 

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The United Front Work Department and how it plays a part in the Gladys Liu controversy
Opinion By Ryan ManuelUpdated about an hour ago

PHOTO Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Liberal MP Gladys Liu in Parliament this week. ABC NEWS: ADAM KENNEDY
Gladys Liu is in hot water over her alleged association with the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party.
Yet no-one has alleged that Ms Liu herself, nor the Liberal Party she belongs to, holds any communist sympathies. Her association is with a body that is not in Hong Kong, where she was born, but rather in mainland China, and she hasn't been a member since 2015, well before entering.
So what is all this fuss about? Ms Liu was on the council of the Guangzhou China Overseas Exchange, and an honorary chair of overseas Chinese trade and commerce bodies.
These are "linked to the Chinese Government's United Front Work propaganda and foreign influence activities".
A united, but mysterious, front
The United Front Work Department remains a poorly understood part of the party.
It is a leftover from when China was occupied by Japan, and the party — weak and isolated — joined with other political parties and groups to form a "united front" against the invaders. Put bluntly, their job was to play nice.
Some context: the Chinese Communist Party leads China through controlling China's Government and through running its own activities. Its own activities, separate from those of the Government, include making people study how the Communist Party sees the world, and promoting this same world vision to China's own people.
As China has grown in importance throughout the world, it has attempted to include the Chinese diaspora, including in Australia, in these activities.
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Ms Liu says her name may have been added to records without her knowledge (courtesy Sky News: The Bolt Report)
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Ms Liu's associations don't themselves promote communist ideals. Rather, they are networking and trade associations that answer to the local government wherever they are formed, and that local government itself answers to the local branch of the party, eventually weaving its way all the way to Beijing, China's capital and its ruler, Xi Jinping, who leads the Communist Party.
In 2018, one of these associations was moved administratively from being in the Government to being under the direct supervision of the party's United Front Work Department.
But this shift does not really alter the relationship between Ms Liu's organisation and China's leaders.
Rather, it changed the formal lines of reporting from the association meeting in Guangzhou and then briefing the Guangzhou Government, to meeting and briefing the Guangzhou United Front liaison. Either way, a representative still has to take it to the Guangzhou Party committee, which would pass it to the Guangdong Party committee, who forwards it to the Central Secretariat, which may bring it to the attention of the party's politburo, a 25-person cabinet which meets monthly.
So the problem is rather with the informal channels. Chinese diaspora organisations want winners as figure heads, and while Ms Liu, a brilliant fundraiser, may not be from Guangzhou, she speaks the right language.
In return, the associations give her access to wealthy business leaders, many of whom have links to Australia through family, friends or even city-to-city relationships, especially that between Guangzhou and Sydney.

PHOTO Chinese President Xi Jinping wanted United Front to help China grow stronger, through more "consultations". AP: MARK SCHIEFELBEIN'Magic weapon' changed under Xi
China's current leader Mr Xi wanted more focus on the United Front, emphasising more work on China's restive provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang, micromanaging religious groups, and finally, moving relations with overseas Chinese organisations from the Government into the United Front bureaucracy.
It was this final move that is most relevant to Ms Liu's current difficulty.
That was because Mr Xi reminded everyone that United Front work was designed to keep China unified and be a "magic weapon" that would help China itself grow strong, through more "consultations" with everyone.
Mr Xi's focus may have been internal to China, but in Australia these consultations were not welcomed, particularly during the Turnbull administration.
Turnbull's speechwriter — John Garnaut, a former Fairfax Beijing bureau chief — wrote a classified report on Chinese influence and an article saying that Australia had "reset" relations with China.
Labor senator Sam Dastyari attended a press conference to support China's claims in the disputed South China Sea, and media was later briefed that he had told a Chinese donor his house was bugged. Mr Dastyari resigned. Turnbull attacked, introducing China-focused foreign influence legislation.
All of this is now rebounding on Ms Liu, which seems a bit stiff. Any overseas Chinese organisations could be described as being "linked to the United Front".
Wealth and power combined
In reality, it is messy and fragmented. Party activities focus on language and thinking, trying to influence Chinese-language community and civil society groups and media.
The organisations that have got Ms Liu into trouble, however, are crudely transactional, mingling the rich with the powerful.
While both parties cry outrage, they both take Chinese money. And neither defines what sort of Chinese influence they will or won't accept.
Ms Liu's energy, access and fundraising — the very things that brought her to the Liberal Party's attention — are now a curse rather than a blessing.
It is hard to map China's politics onto ours. Many things get lost in translation. "Magic weapon" or fabao, for example, can also mean a lucky charm. Ms Liu probably doesn't think so.
Ryan Manuel is head of Official China, a research initiative that downloads and translates Chinese official documents. He is a former senior China analyst for the Australian government.
Posted about 7 hours ago

 

[syed putra]

China communist party by now should realise, without democracy, there is a tendency for leaders to become life long dictators.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

China communist party by now should realise, without democracy, there is a tendency for leaders to become life long dictators.

I don't see yr point...the commies believe in dictatorships and rule by law

 

[tanwahtiu]

As long as you go about destroy other countries with gunboats that is democracy.....

When a country raise from fishing village to modern countries they are dictatorship....

He is the proof US was a dictatorship country... modern city envy by the world....

gunboats rule the world....

I don't see yr point...the commies believe in dictatorships and rule by law

 

[mojito]

Very suspicious. That the problem with western democracies. Fund raise often means election success. No surprise moley lady gets party nomination.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

 

[rushifa666]

When people say cccp spies and assorted trash are everywhere people choose to be stupid. Now what?

 

[krafty]

i am her supporter.

 

[winnipegjets]

Conservatives will do anything to suck up to the rich. You see that with Trump and the Republicans. You see that with the Liberal Party (liberal in name, but conservative in every way), the Brazilian Trump who is doing the bidding of the rich land owners and our very own PAP.

The rich rules the world. Governments work for the rich, pretend to be for the people. And the stupid majority can't see that.

The world is doomed unless the masses wake up and fight the rich. Once upon a time there was organized entity against the rich, called the unions. But the rich was able to vilify the unions (even though the unions had successfully done so much to raise the standard of living of the masses) and got the population to neutered them.

Without an organized entity to speak for them, the masses are being transformed into minions. Divided and conquered. When will there be an awakening?

 

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Gladys Liu broke through the bamboo ceiling but will it help other Chinese-Australians?
OPINION BY JIEH-YUNG LOUPDATED ABOUT 3 HOURS AGO
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Liberal candidate for Chisholm Gladys Liu at her campaign launch at the Box Hill Golf Club in Melbourne, on Monday, April 15, 2019.
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While Gladys Liu and I share very little in common (apart from our Chaozhou ancestry and the fact we both can speak Cantonese and Mandarin), her achievement as the first Chinese-Australian female federal MP was a source of pride — especially for a community that has so little representation and leadership in Australian politics.
The "bamboo ceiling" inhibiting membership of our Parliaments, like other key institutions, is thick and tough. But Ms Liu's election as the federal member for Chisholm did in fact represent a small breakthrough.
It should have inspired and motivated current and future generations of Chinese-Australians and Asian-Australians to find their voice, step up and pursue a career in politics.
It provided a breath of fresh air and symbolic reassurance that we are indeed a part of this country and our participation in Australian democracy is welcomed.

PHOTO Jieh-Yung Lo speaking at the Asian-Australian leadership Summit in Melbourne last week.
SUPPLIEDWe are collateral damage
The debate over foreign influence and interference, exposure of political donations from questionable sources and the subsequent eroding of Australia's bilateral relationship with China, have placed an enormous strain on the reputation of Chinese-Australians.
We feel that as a community we are becoming collateral damage. And that trend has accelerated dramatically with the recent claims and counter-claims about the new federal member for Chisholm.
Since the claims surrounding Ms Liu's association with Chinese community organisations with alleged links to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) United Front Work Department were made public, I have witnessed a seriously increased sense of nervousness, unease and division among some within the Chinese-Australian community.
This extremely complicated issue, intertwining geopolitical tensions with domestic politics, has left some members of my community feeling as if they have been caught in the crossfire. Many believe it will get worse.
There is outright anger for being bundled together in generalisations based on race, culture and ethnicity. There is frustration at the rise of a new form of Sinophobia with another Australian of Chinese descent in public life having his or her loyalty, commitment and allegiance to Australia questioned.

There is also some disappointment in Ms Liu's response to the allegations and a belief it is not adequate and did not meet community expectations.​

These diverse perspectives demonstrate why we need to always recognise the diversity within Chinese-Australians and why it is never appropriate to paint and taint us with the same brush.
Liu's explanation didn't stack up
Many question whether she has the skills to be an effective parliamentarian and make a contribution on behalf of her constituents and community.
Having initially said she "cannot recall" being a member of either group, Ms Liu later confirmed she held an honorary rolewith Guangdong Overseas Exchange Association in 2011 but no longer had any association with the organisation.
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The concerns around skills and competence are important, especially for a community that strongly believes in merit.
For Ms Liu, we have yet to witness much beyond political fundraising and campaigning abilities.
Her interview with Andrew Bolt highlighted her inability to dissect the issues and challenges facing Australia.
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This is of concern because the longer the precise history of her involvement remains unclear, the easier it becomes for Chinese-Australians to be misrepresented.
We need to conquer stereotypes
If we are serious about increasing the participation of Chinese-Australians and Asian-Australians in our democratic institutions, we need to erase the stereotype portraying us as little more than political fundraisers and numbers-builders.
It is a stereotype that has been exacerbated by representatives like Ms Liu and former NSW Labor MP Ernest Wong.
Within Chinese-Australian circles in Victoria, Ms Liu is a well-known fundraiser — able to quickly bring in VIP guests to Liberal Party events where thousands of dollars are raised to assist various Liberal Party campaigns.
But dollars are not the only numbers Ms Liu can bring to the table.
She has also shown the ability to recruit hundreds of volunteers from the Chinese-Australian community to fill polling booths.

These skills enabled her to develop her political capital, leading eventually to her successful preselection for a marginal seat.​

Thanks to political operatives like Ms Liu, Chinese-Australians and to a certain extent other Asian-Australian communities, are seen by some politicians and political parties as little more than cash cows — walking ATMs whose only real contribution is to provide donations at lavish dinners.
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Ms Liu's continued approach in refusing to offer a full and transparent public explanation to the allegations against her threatens to undermine the outcomes I and many others are striving to work towards.
It is hard to argue for greater cultural diversity of representation and leadership in our institutions when those already occupying these positions, such as Ms Liu, fail to show leadership and transparency by not immediately declaring membership of the Chinese community organisations in question and donations made to the Liberal Party of Victoria.
Representation is important but it must not be tokenistic: those breaking through the bamboo ceiling must have the skills and competences that make them standard bearers for others.
I argued during this year's Federal Election that, regardless of who was going to win the seat of Chisholm between Labor's Jennifer Yang and Gladys Liu, there would be big expectations from Chinese-Australians.
We expect Ms Liu to speak up on our behalf, represent her constituents, make a contribution to the big policy issues facing Australia and be accountable for her actions and opinions.
From what I and many in the Chinese-Australian community have seen so far, we could be waiting for a long time.
Jieh-Yung Lo is a Chinese-Australian advocate and commentator and former member of the Australian Labor Party.
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