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Australian court upholds laws against foreign interference
ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press
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Australia s Attorney-General Michaelia Cash speaks at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, April 8, 2021. Cash said Wednesday, May 12, 2021, that her government had never been more determined to keep Australians free and safe from foreign interference after Chinese-born political adviser John Shi Sheng Zhang lost his challenge in Australia s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)Mick Tsikas/AP
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) A Chinese-born political adviser on Wednesday lost his challenge in Australia’s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics.
Rod Mcguirk
Australia s Attorney-General Michaelia Cash speaks at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, April 8, 2021. Cash said Wednesday, May 12, 2021, that her government had never been more determined to keep Australians free and safe from foreign interference after Chinese-born political adviser John Shi Sheng Zhang lost his challenge in Australia s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP) May 11, 2021 - 10:44 PM
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) â A Chinese-born political adviser on Wednesday lost his challenge in Australiaâs highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics.
John Shi Sheng Zhang also lost his High Court challenge in a unanimous decision of seven judges to the validity of search warrants executed by police at his Sydney home and offices last year as part of an investigation into illegal foreign interference
A Chinese-born Australian political adviser yesterday lost his challenge in Australia’s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics.
John Zhang (張智森) also lost his Australian High Court challenge in a unanimous decision of seven judges to the validity of search warrants executed by police at his Sydney home and offices last year as part of an investigation into illegal foreign interference on behalf of China.
Zhang was an adviser to New South Wales Lawmaker Shaoquett Moselmane, whose membership in the opposition Labor Party was suspended after he was also the target of police raids.
The raids in June last
2021/05/12 10:48 CANBERRA, Australia (AP) A Chinese-born political adviser on Wednesday lost his challenge in Australia’s highest court against laws banning covert foreign interference in domestic politics. John Shi Sheng Zhang also lost his High Court challenge to the validity of search warrants executed by police at his Sydney home and offices last year as part of an investigation into illegal foreign interference. Zhang was an adviser to New South Wales state lawmaker Shaoquett Moselmane, whose membership in the opposition Labor Party was suspended after he was also the target of police raids. The raids in June 2020 were the first police investigation to grab public attention since the foreign interference laws came into force in 2018 and the government bolstered funding to security agencies in late 2019 to enforce them.