![]() Pavlou also plastered South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon onto a truck, calling him “China’s Puppet” for his legal work with Huawei. Queensland Senate candidate and outspoken CCP-critic Drew Pavlou is behind the campaign. Offline tactics have gone into overdrive with Liu’s face doing the rounds on roving billboard ads that label her “Xi Jinping’s candidate for Chisholm” and encourage voters to “Flush the Liu”. This round, Liu was accused of “ taking money from the Chinese government” at a community debate and branded a Chinese spy on the official Facebook page of Labor’s state Queensland branch. ![]() Whilst the incumbent Liberal-National Coalition government continue to channel their CCP-cosy campaign against Labor Leader Anthony Albanese, Deputy Richard Marles, and foreign affairs spokesperson Penny Wong Liberal candidate for Chisholm Gladys Liu was the latest politician to become a vehicle for allegations of foreign interference both on and offline.ĭuring the 2019 Australian federal election, Liu’s purported CCP connections featured as an election flashpoint. This election, it is the Australian political class that are buoying the CCP to push their own red line on voters. But past culpability and capability doesn’t translate to de facto interference here and now. Individuals and entities with links to the CCP attempting to funnel funds and toe a red line have previously been caught out by Australian spy agencies. ![]() Facebook ad endorsing a tweet from Defence Minister Peter Dutton containing unverified claims about the CCP.Īlleged Chinese interference is not a foreign phenomenon in Australian politics.
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