Port of Darwin Lease to Chinese Company ‘Unfathomable’: Sen. Abetz
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has welcomed a review into the Port of Darwin’s 99-year lease to a company with strong ties to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), saying it was a “serious mistake that must be rectified.”
This comes amid tense relations between Canberra and Beijing, which sharply declined after Australia called for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 and implemented measures to protect its national interests, including reviewing the port lease. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference following a national cabinet meeting at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on April 22, 2021. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)
Australian government ministers denounce student newspaper for pulling anti-China story
Senior ministers in the federal Liberal-National Coalition government over recent days have taken the unusual step of aggressively intervening in a minor controversy relating to a student newspaper.
Amid the debacle of the coronavirus vaccine rollout, myriad social and economic issues and a broader government crisis, they have found the time to make dire warnings about the free speech implications of a single article being voluntarily withdrawn from a website by the student editors who commissioned and wrote it.
University of Sydney’s Main Quadrangle. (Image credit: Jason Tong/Wikipedia)
MP Ted Hui was once dragged by force from the chamber. He and fellow pro-democracy politicians are pushing for Australia to do more for those in Beijing’s crosshairs.
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