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Dastyari Tape Raises Heat $3 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2017 Published in Melbourne since 1854 theage.com.au INDEPENDENT.INI N DED PEND ALWAYS. READYFORSUMMER? Boiling days and sweltering nights are set to test the city’s infrastructure NEWS RED-LETTER DAY TThehe SenateSenate makesmakes historyhistory bbyy ppassingassing tthehe ssame-sexame-sex mmarriagearriage bbill.ill. NEWS 4-5 Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Dastyari tape raises heat EXCLUSIVE A brief report in a Sydney-based, the press conference has been ob- in The Hague. The ‘‘role Australia officials corroborates that Senator Chinese-language newspaper last tained by The Age. It shows Senator should be playing as a friend is to Dastyari planned to make the com- year about the June 17, 2016, press Dastyari clearly and deliberately know that, with the several thousand ments before he delivered them, and Nick McKenzie conference was partly responsible contradicted Australia’s foreign years of history … where it is and had told Mr Huang of his intentions – James Massola for Senator Dastyari being sacked policy, and Labor policy, by saying isn’t our place to be involved,’’ Senat- things the senator has denied. Richard Baker from the Labor Party frontbench Australia and the ALP should ob- or Dastyari said. The revelations come after The last September. serve ‘‘several thousand years’’ of Senator Dastyari made the com- Age reported yesterday morning An explosive tape recording shows However, Senator Dastyari bla- Chinese history in respecting Bei- ments as he stood alongside Chinese that Senator Dastyari had, in Octo- for the first time that Senator Sam med a spontaneous, ‘‘garbled ... jing’s claims to disputed territory, Communist Party-aligned political ber 2016, met Mr Huang in person at Dastyari delivered a scripted, delib- wrong answer’’ to a curve-ball ques- which includes islands in the South donor Huang Xiangmo. The recor- his house and warned him his phones erate and detailed defence of the tion, or inaccurate reporting, for the China Sea. ded comments sound scripted and were tapped, and that he should not Chinese government’s aggressive comments, in which he suggested These comments repeat the deliberate, and are carefully de- speak near his phone or inside his land grab in the South China Sea, Australia should remain neutral on Chinese government’s position, livered. home. Senator Dastyari did not deny despite the senator’s repeated at- China’s border policy. which was subsequently rejected by The Age has confirmed that intelli- tempts to deny it. Now, however, a tape recording of the Permanent Court of Arbitration gence collected by national security Continued Page 8 WEATHER ODD SPOT Business Today Late showers 22–35 Eight donkeys have spent four days in jail in India after chewing their way through some Seek pushes up Tomorrow Thundery rain 22–26 saplings that had been planted near the prison. Orai jail superintendent Sita Ram Sharma earnings forecast Saturday Heavy rain 17–21 said: ‘‘There is no such law wherein we can arrest donkeys. They were confined for four JENNIFER DUKE Details Page 35 days to teach a lesson to their owner who did not pay attention to our warnings.’’ Page 24 NATAGE A001 8 THE AGE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2017 NEWS revitalisation of [the] Chinese Nick McKenzie nation.’’ James Massola In 2015, in his capacity as Richard Baker reunification council president, Huang addressed a Chinese On June 17 2016, Senator Sam consulate event, saying: ‘‘We Dastyari strode to a podium overseas Chinese unswervingly engraved with Australia’s coat of support the Chinese government’s arms and began the press position to defend national conference that would almost sovereignty and territorial integrity destroy his career. ... [and] support the development of Dressed in a charcoal suit and the motherland.’’ flanked by two Australian flags, Sydney University of Dastyari projected statesmanship. Technology’s China academic and ‘‘The South China Sea is China’s Communist Party critic Dr Feng own affair,’’ Dastyari was later Chongyi says Huang is closely reported as saying in a Chinese aligned to the United Front and also language news outlet. ‘‘On this issue, ‘‘supported by the Chinese Australia should remain neutral and problem bedevilling Donald Trump. rule, supporting narratives emerged authorities, including the embassy respect China’s decision.’’ Dastyari was forced to deny cash- on the sidelines. [in Canberra] or the consulate [in Weeks after these 19 words were for-comment allegations, and claims One was about the United Front Sydney]’’. reported, and amid fierce scrutiny he’d become a puppet of the Chinese Work Department, a secretive According to three serving or about why the rising star of the ALP government. The coalition dubbed lobbying agency dedicated to what former national security sources, had contradicted Australia’s him ‘‘Shanghai Sam’’. He lost his President Xi has labelled China’s ASIO became interested in Huang in bipartisan foreign policy on Beijing’s position on the Labor frontbench, ‘‘magic weapon’’ – a Leninist-style early 2015, around the same time two aggressive territorial claims, but with no further evidence, operation to influence and recruit senior officials working for former Dastyari hinted that he may have Dastyari was able to make his case friends in the west and isolate prime minister Tony Abbott, never actually said them. that he had simply been hapless, enemies. national security adviser Andrew If he was not ‘‘misquoted’’ he had bumbling and naive. ‘‘The [Chinese Communist Party] Shearer and foreign affairs expert ‘‘mispoken’’ while spontaneously The scandal began to fade. has been making friends from far Michael Thawley, raised concerns responding to an unexpected curve- Then, earlier this year, Dastyari and wide, many of whom have about interference by Beijing and its ball question. sought to bury it forever. become confidants,’’ a top party proxies, including United Front ‘‘Now I’m not going to be the first As part of an effort to rehabilitate official said in a National Congress members and donors. or the last backbench member of himself in the public mind, he went press statement. This interest culminated in a parliament to have taken a foreign on Australian Story, where he The statement also detailed how secret 2015 briefing by ASIO to policy question they shouldn’t have repeatedly insisted his words, which those involved in United Front had senior Labor and coalition figures, taken, mumbled it and answered it contradicted Australian and Labor sought to build support for China’s including ALP secretary George incorrectly,’’ he recently told the foreign policy, were no more than a militarisation of the South China Wright and Liberal director Brian ABC’s Australian Story in a polished spontaneous stuff-up; a blurted, Sea, a land grab ruled illegal by an Loughnane. As a joint Fairfax Media delivery of a well-practised ‘‘wrong garbled answer given to an international tribunal but which and Four Corners investigation answer to an unexpected question’’ unexpected question. CAUGHT President Xi justifies on the basis of revealed in June, Huang was named defence. ‘‘I gave the wrong answer to a thousands of years of history. as one of two donors of concern in Dastyari’s denials that his complicated foreign policy question ON TAPE Like missionaries spreading this briefing. comments were planned or pre- that I was naive enough and perhaps WWhathat SSenatorenator DastyariDastyari religion, United Front operatives By then, Dastyari was Huang’s scripted have withstood intense silly enough to take,’’ he said in ttoldold CChinesehinese mmediaedia had, ‘‘helped political parties and point man in the ALP. Dastyari had scrutiny due to a simple fact: no response to a grilling by ABC friends from all social sectors of assiduously cultivated Huang after evidence had ever surfaced to journalist Quentin McDermott. various countries get to the truth his arrival in Australia in 2011. “The Chinese integrity of its suggest Dastyari was avoiding a less Dastyari’s defence strategy based on facts and reasoning.’’ The charming, impulsive student borders is a matter for China.” palatable truth. worked. In February, he was Huang has dismissed suggestions politician turned rising star of the The only verifiable record of the promoted to the opposition’s senate that he, or the Sydney organisation ALP had described Huang to Labor “The role Australia should be press conference has been a single deputy whip, even though some he headed until this week, the colleagues as a donations ‘‘whale’’. playing as a friend is to know photo of Dastyari at the podium, political observers noted that he Australian Council for the Money from Huang’s successful that with the several thousand flanked by his billionaire benefactor seemed to be uneasy about what Promotion of the Peaceful property development company, the years of history, thousands of and political donor, Chinese ‘‘the agencies’’ knew about his Reunification of China, are engaged Yuhu Group, was able to plump years of history, where it is and developer Huang Xiangmo. dealings with Huang. in United Front work. Labor coffers, Dastyari explained isn’t our place to be involved.’’ The pair’s history initially made He was right to be concerned. In a statement released in June, excitedly. Coalition MPs were also matters far worse for Dastyari. A Fairfax Media investigation has Huang insisted the reunification cultivating Huang as a donor. “And as a supporter of China By June 2016, Huang had given uncovered disturbing new details council is ‘‘an autonomous, non- Huang himself could also act as a and a friend of China the the ALP more than $1 million in about the pair’s relationship. A tape government organisation’’ and it conduit to Chinese voters and the Australian Labor Party needs donations, much of it raised by recording of the press conference was ‘‘incorrect to describe … [it] as Communist Party-aligned Chinese to play an important role in Dastyari.
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