The HeraldSun reported in early 2019:
A deal to import 33,000 tonnes of Chinese steel for the West Gate Tunnel will torpedo Premier Daniel Andrews’s local content pledge and threatens to cause chaos on the project.
Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC) announced online it would be making its “first entry” into the steel bridge market in Australia, after striking a contract with the $6.7 billion Tunnel’s builder — a group made up of CPB Contractors and John Holland.
The Australian Workers’ Union has labelled the announcement, posted via digital networking site LinkedIn, a “disgrace” that breaches a guarantee for 92 per cent local steel on the project.
Unions like the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) form the bedrock of Andrew's Labor Party's electoral support, but the AWU's criticism did not seem to bother Andrews or his government.
Malaysian readers will find it hard to find much difference between the conduct of the Andrews Government and that of Najib Razak's.
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Saturday, May 30, 2020
Evidence of China linked political donation before Dan Andrews signed Silk Road/BRI agreement, but Australians cannot still bring themselves to confront the reality that their Silk Road deals are tainted, just like the Malaysian ,Kuwaiti Silk Road/BRI deals
by Ganesh Sahathevan
The investigative website Sarawak Report has added to the evidence of corruption in the Kuwait Silk Road/BRI deal:
Daniel Andrews accepts a cheque for the Victorian Labor Party in 2014. HTTPS://WWW.THEAGE.COM.AU/POLITICS/FEDERAL/PREMIER-S-BELT-AND-ROAD-ADVISER-HELPED-LAND-LABOR-DONATION-20200529-P54XOZ.HTML
The investigative website Sarawak Report has added to the evidence of corruption in the Kuwait Silk Road/BRI deal:
As Sarawak Report has lately revealed Jho Low had been busy in the course of early 2016 making provision for the transfers of large sums of laundered money from these Chinese contracts using a new business relationship in Kuwait.
The by now fugitive Malaysian financier who, despite denials at the time, was still working for Najib to resolve the growing crisis over 1MDB had forged a business deal with the family of the then Kuwait prime minister and had agreed to pass the billions expected from these Chinese “commissions” through companies owned by Sheikh Sabah Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah (Sheikh Sabah) the prime minister’s elder son.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ top Belt and Road adviser was instrumental in landing a $100,000 donation to the Labor party through a key Chinese business group years before Victoria signed up to the controversial infrastructure scheme.
Mr Andrews’ senior adviser, Marty Mei, who is on the board of the Hunan Business Association, helped secure the contribution in the lead up to the 2014 state election, according to sources with knowledge of the donation. He later became Mr Andrews' multicultural adviser and worked on the Belt and Road deal.
Despite even this revelation Australians seem unwilling to accept that their Belt & Road deals are tainted in any way. Even in Malaysia an anti-corruption agency and police investigation would have been commenced on the strength of the Nine news report above.
It is time Australians grew up.
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Surgical mask raider Greenland Property featured in Belt & Road deal with Jho Low of 1MDB fame: More evidence from Sarawak Report that Australian Government intelligence on the Silk Road/BRI is false; former Morrison security adviser and south east Asian expert Michelle Chan should be interrogated for intelligence failure
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