"Sam Dastyari must resign from parliament"
Surely this man is a traitor to the country in who's parliament he sits.
We may not be in a shooting war with China at the moment but we will be one
day and this man's support for a policy diametrically opposed to our own can
only be one step short of wearing the enemies uniform.
Dismiss him from the parliament.
Discredit him and lock him up.

Get yer hand off it.

The Liars party have been taking way more cash from the Chinese than Dastyari. Not to mention selling them any asset they can get their grubby little hands on.

Anyway they are not donations at all they are BRIBES!

<Senator Dastyari's poor judgment open to more questions

For a man many believe to be highly intelligent, Senator Dastyari shows incredibly bad judgment. But what has not been properly examined yet is the full scope of his involvement with Chinese donors, and some of his questions in Senate Estimates hearings.

Consider his performance on the 27th May, 2014 when he asked a series of highly injudicious questions about national security.

First of all, he publicly probed security arrangements concerning the Prime Minister's close protection detail, and who was responsible for advising on security at particular functions. He persisted in asking questions on this in spite of being told by officials that was not something that should be canvassed in public. In this day and age, that in itself shows very poor judgement.

For Senator Dastyari that was merely a warm up for his main game, which was an extraordinary series of questions about intimate details concerning Australia's national security arrangements. For example, he wanted to know how the Associate Secretary for National Security and International Policy in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet liaised between the Prime Minister and the Department of Foreign Affairs.

He also wanted to know whether it was the Associate Secretary's role "…to get the national-security-related information together and be the one port, up to the Prime Minister."

This public rummaging in Australian national security matters didn't end there. He then moved on to whether advisors from the National Security and International Policy Group regularly accompanied the Foreign Minister on overseas trips.

Senator Dastyari wanted to know what officials from the National Security and International Policy Group, and the Prime Minister's senior advisor for national security were doing when they attended a follow up meeting in Japan to follow up Tony Abbott's visit to that country.

"Why would someone from the national security team and the Prime Minister's personal staff member with the line item of national security be following up a Prime Minister's visit to Japan? What were the follow-ups about?" he demanded to know.>
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<At the time, Australia was in negotiations with Japan over possibly purchasing new submarines from that country. Those submarines are one of Australia's most critical defence purchases.

All of this led back to one topic - the South China Sea.

He insisted on knowing whether or not the National Security and International Policy Group was involved in drafting the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue Joint Statement between the US, Japan and Australia. For those who don't know, this was a joint statement critical of China's conduct in the South China Sea and reaffirming the right of freedom of navigation.

Follow the chain - national security; Japan; submarines; South China Sea.

The problem for Senator Dastyari is that these questions came just months after his visit to China in January, 2014, paid for by the Chinese government. There he appears to have met with a company - Huawei - which had already been blocked from investing in the National Broadband Network. He also met with the Yuhu Group, which reportedly paid a legal bill for him.

It really doesn't matter whether it is Labor or Liberal, or the money comes from China, Japan, or the US; politicians should not have their private legal bills paid for by foreigners. It puts their credibility into question.

At the very least, reasonable people might question Senator Dastyari's judgment. Others must be rubbing their heads trying to figure out how someone so clever could ask such sensitive - and stupid - questions about our national security in a public forum.

Senator Dastyari has not yet disclosed all the details of his dealings with Yuhu Group, both overseas and here. How many times have they met, and when, and what was discussed? How exactly was it that they came to pay his personal legal bills? It is now time for him to do so.

As an elected official with incredibly generous foreign friends Senator Dastyari owes the Australian public a full explanation>
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/comment/the-hermit/senator-dastyaris-poor-judgment-open-to-more-questions-20160906-grabue.html

Dastyari has proved beyond doubt that he is not to be trusted with anything of any value to the country or it's people.

I wonder what makes Shorten think he can be recycled, as if his dishonesty was not a proven fact. Could he have a swage of votes in his pocket, or campaign funds. If the latter I wonder who from.

Obviously honesty & trustworthiness are not valued by the left.

We have seen that union bosses don't give a damn about the wellbeing of their members, & I guess it is only a continuation of this that approves of the likes of Shorten & Dastyari

The only people who think Dastyari is "highly intelligent" are his Labor mates and others like him. What person who cannot pay a $1,600 bill is intelligent, particularly one even on a back bencher's salary? What intelligent person even asks anybody, particularly a foreigner, to pay his bill? Intelligence has never been in abundance among the political class, and a dead dog would have more of it than Dastyari. In time of conflict, he would definitely be a traitor, but in peacetime, he and the other tools can get get away with anything beacause they are all up to funny business.