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NSW Labor MP suspended after raids probing China links
China’s infiltration plot surfaces in Australia as NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane became suspended after home raid for probing China links. Moselmane himself is revealed to have taken nine privately-funded trips to China, paid by Chinese Government or agencies as documents disclosed, since he entered Parliament in 2009. Moselmane has a part-time political staffer, Zhang, who completed a propaganda training course prepared by an academy that trained senior cadres of the Chinese Communist Party.
However, Moselmane was not the only MP to speak for China. Labor Party’s director Allan Gyngell during a meeting in the Shadow Cabinet criticized and attempted to silence those who are vocal about China as he told them “not to cause a fuss”. Labor MPs are therefore concerning their free speech being curtailed by Anthony Albanese’s leadership team. They claimed they were urged to not to sign an international letter condemning China over Hong Kong’s National Security Law.
Meanwhile, university undergraduate student Pavlou is expelled from the University of Queensland and is facing graphic death threat as well as vile abuse after he gathered to speak out against Beijing’s anti-democracy efforts in Hong Kong, the treatment of the Uighur minority, and the university’s close ties with China. Mr Pavlou was assaulted by men who are alleged to be sent by the Consulate.
Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-labor-mp-shaoquett-moselmane-to-be-suspended-after-raids-probing-china-links-20200626-p556gd.html
https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-police-investigating-top-chinese-diplomat-after-complaint-from-aussie-uni-student/news-story/d9bd9f8838076ab36156346403cc04f3
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6166083948001
https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/australian-police-raid-lawmaker-over-china-links/
#Australia #China #LaborMP
#ChineseInfluence #FreedomOfSpeech
China’s infiltration plot surfaces in Australia as NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane became suspended after home raid for probing China links. Moselmane himself is revealed to have taken nine privately-funded trips to China, paid by Chinese Government or agencies as documents disclosed, since he entered Parliament in 2009. Moselmane has a part-time political staffer, Zhang, who completed a propaganda training course prepared by an academy that trained senior cadres of the Chinese Communist Party.
However, Moselmane was not the only MP to speak for China. Labor Party’s director Allan Gyngell during a meeting in the Shadow Cabinet criticized and attempted to silence those who are vocal about China as he told them “not to cause a fuss”. Labor MPs are therefore concerning their free speech being curtailed by Anthony Albanese’s leadership team. They claimed they were urged to not to sign an international letter condemning China over Hong Kong’s National Security Law.
Meanwhile, university undergraduate student Pavlou is expelled from the University of Queensland and is facing graphic death threat as well as vile abuse after he gathered to speak out against Beijing’s anti-democracy efforts in Hong Kong, the treatment of the Uighur minority, and the university’s close ties with China. Mr Pavlou was assaulted by men who are alleged to be sent by the Consulate.
Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-labor-mp-shaoquett-moselmane-to-be-suspended-after-raids-probing-china-links-20200626-p556gd.html
https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/queensland-police-investigating-top-chinese-diplomat-after-complaint-from-aussie-uni-student/news-story/d9bd9f8838076ab36156346403cc04f3
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6166083948001
https://asiatimes.com/2020/06/australian-police-raid-lawmaker-over-china-links/
#Australia #China #LaborMP
#ChineseInfluence #FreedomOfSpeech
The Sydney Morning Herald
NSW Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane suspended after raids probing China links
Labor's Sussex Street head office formally suspended Mr Moselmane on Friday after leader Jodi McKay called the party's general secretary and urged him to act.