by Jim Ball | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog, China, Political Donations |
It’s with programs like 4 Corners on Monday night that the ABC, rarely, from time to time redeems itself. If you haven’t watched it yet you must on ABC Iview or at the direct link below. Forget the Russians and the US elections, this is real. It’s...
by Jim Ball | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog, China, Dastyari, Random Notes |
Like many people and political junkies, I have been wracking my brain over the last week trying to understand and get my head around the type of relaxed and comfortable relationship Sam Dastyari must have had with his Chinese patrons that he could just flick pass his...
by Jim Ball | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, China |
“…The worthy venture of building an Australia-China relationship of mutual trust and respect has been harmed. Imagine how Beijing would react if entities linked to a powerful foreign government were paying travel and legal bills for rising stars in the...
by Jim Ball | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, China |
Now Carr is in it up to his neck…. An afternoon tea paid for by Bob Carr’s Australia-China Relations Institute and hosted by Labor senator Sam Dastyari was held at the commonwealth parliamentary offices in Sydney, giving a visiting Chinese official access to...
by Jim Ball | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, China |
This is frightening. The veil is slowly being lifted on true multiculti. First Islam and Muslims, and now China and particularly Chinese Australians doing the work of their masters in the homeland. “…Chinese residents in Australia number about one million,...
by Jim Ball | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog, China, Random Notes |
It’s a big call, but given the way the Chinese play international politics and assuming a great deal of Australias borrowings are from China, I wonder if their “downturn” isn’t a confected downturn and they are sourcing their raw materials...
