Wattle

You said the author"s "suggestion of "money trails" is probably drawing a long bow."

Have a look at yesterday's Age newspaper: http://www.theage.com.au/national/lius-40000-gifts-aided-ministers-campaigns-20090403-9rm4.html?page=-1 :

"Mr Fitzgibbon's office yesterday confirmed that Ms Liu's former property development company, Wincopy, contributed $20,000 to his campaign to retain the NSW seat of Hunter in 1998.

Two years earlier, another of her companies, Diamond Hill International, gave $20,000 to Mr Fitzgibbon's campaign fund for his first election.

She also gave at least another $50,000 to the NSW ALP between 2001 and 2007. Details of the gifts came as a former Chinese diplomat who defected to Australia in 2005 spoke of Ms Liu's "intimate" relationship with China's Canberra embassy and Sydney consulate." [all legal for politicians - not for anyone else].

"...Defence Department officials had conducted a covert inquiry into their association and concluded that it posed a security risk due to her high-level Chinese political connections."

"...Despite travelling repeatedly to China to help with Ms Liu's business affairs, Mr Fitzgibbon has denied having any commercial relationship with her.

But this week he refused three times to answer questions from The Age about whether his wife, children or siblings had received cash or company shares from Ms Liu or her associates.

Mr Fitzgibbon also refused to discuss whether he intended to continue renting a Canberra residence owned by Ms Liu's family..."

All through this Fitzgibbon has been paid a large parliamentary salary by us - the taxpayers. He is now in an extremely sensitive position of trust yet he has this close foreign financial relationship on the side. If Fitzgibbon weren't a politician would he get away with it?

It would be illegal for Fitzgibbon's lower paid subordinates in Defence to enjoy the (above the law) political privileges he is making money out of now.

Pete
http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2009/04/anzac-day-songs-2009.html

What a very fake and drawn-out beat-up, still beating that drum for Mumsy's Empah and Queen Liz's Rio Tinto as it keeps sucking Australia's resource riches.

On business-related donations, Fitzgibbon's involvement in such practices is part of that near-universal process among Australian parliamentarians - and you know it.

The really serious money trails of the major parties' corruption are those leading to such vaster, dark pits in Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Rio Tinto et al.

Most disturbing in this case is that the above rackets mostly involve the imperialist fakery of derivatives-based finance. China's resource interests, by contrast, offer actual trade in real wealth and associated benefits for regional security.

The whole campaign is a contemptible subversion of Australia's national interest. It may just prove to be the site of an effort at regional destabilization. What's cooking next? Another project against Indonesia? East Timor? PNG?

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Just kidding mil...

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His Nibs/Royal Lowness does not surprise at all by jeering at my warning against the imperialist campaign underway so blatantly now. The Whitlam-era push to nationalize Australia's resources met with very similar sleaze and destabilization, culminating in the GG's sacking of Australia's elected national political leader.

If imperialist agents are merely left out of government and its various positions of influence, or even if they are out of the country itself, they will continue their efforts via well-funded lobbying and covert action. But such activity too is extremely important for these campaigns regardless, in order to mislead the comunity - hence the intensification of media barrages along these lines.

Therefore, we can see too that "acting for foreign interests" or "treason", cannot be properly defined for Australian legal purposes when foreign interests subordinate the entire state apparatus, and especially in most explicit senses in areas like defence, the police forces, and in the judiciary itself!

Any loyal Australians alerting the state apparatus of such actual treason and/or corruption will at some stage confront imperialist agents ready to discredit them, harass them, blacklist them, and worse. As I recall from another commenting to the same effect, but in the more isolated context of budgets: it's the foxes running the hen house.

I'm referring ultimately to the Queen (and - shudder - future Kingsy Charles!) of Old Engel-land. Perhaps worse than many of the old toff, plum-mouthed pretenders of Oz's Foreign Office-turned-DFAT, such non-Australian, un-Australian and often ANTI-Australian sentiments and traditions are some of the deepest internal weaknesses undermining Australian sovereignty and efficient self-defence.

They also pose some of the most direct challenges and dangers to any sincere Australian government.

Spikey, your link to the Coates article was enlightening. A quote:

"Relevant to Australia is a massive naval base China is constructing at China’s southernmost point, near the resort of Sanya, on Hainan Island. In a setting and plot worthy of James Bond’s The Spy Who Loved Me China appears to be building huge tunnels in hillsides at the base which could be capable of hiding 20 nuclear submarines."

Such is the pubescent onanism "informing" many among those establishment circles which still presume the title "intelligence" in their dubiously motivated and dubiously directed service.

And the implicitly imperialist condescension is breathtaking. "Egads! How DARE these CHINESE rotters build a naval base...in CHINA!"