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V1 - AUSE01Z01MA $3.00 THURSDAY March 1, 2018 PRICE INCLUDES GST WWW.THEAUSTRALIAN.COM.AU I FOR THE INFORMED AUSTRALIAN I NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR FREIGHT EXTRA INQUIRER {P11} ARTS {P15} EXCLUSIVE {P7} BUSINESS {P17} CrownBet’s MARGIN FOREST Catherine SHRINK THE CALL QUEEN OF McClements’ play for Who is WARS modern twist STADIUM William shorting on Cleopatra Domino’s? A new battle looms THE NILE NRL push for smaller venue Hill {P17} BEIJING DELAYS VISIT BY TOP AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMAT AS PRESSURE BUILDS OVER MILITARY MOVES Cold war: freeze on China ties Critical reports about Australia former ambassador to Beijing. Congress before planning her trip. concerned about Chinese govern- to draw attention to divisions be- EXCLUSIVE and the Prime Minister have Earlier consideration of a But government sources con- ment attempts to dissuade stu- tween the US and Australia. A Glo- INSIDE spiked in China following his visit March trip for Mr Turnbull to Bei- cede there is a diplomatic and bu- dents from coming to Australia to bal Times article — which labelled DENNIS SHANAHAN last week to Washington, where jing — he has already visited reaucratic stalling over a range of study. In an escalation of the pres- Australia an “anti-China pioneer” China is at it again, trying PRIMROSE RIORDAN he agreed to help enforce tough Tokyo and Washington this year visits, as Beijing voices its dis- sure on universities, school visits — even suggested Mr Turnbull all it can to defend its sanctions on North Korea and dis- — has not been followed up and a pleasure at what it sees as foreign- have been cancelled, senior edu- had made a U-turn on China after avenues of interference. China is putting Australia into a cussed “freedom of navigation” scheduled Chinese trip for Julie interference laws being directed cational meetings in Beijing have he declared Australia did not see So much of the action is diplomatic deep freeze, stalling on exercises in the South China Sea. Bishop will not be decided until against China. been “postponed” and messages the communist nation as a threat. opaque but there is a sense ministerial visits, deferring a trip In recent weeks, China has after the Chinese congress finishes Bishop Adamson It is understood the Chinese warning of the dangers of studying A Xinhua report said the Wash- by our top diplomat and putting off made it difficult for lower-level ex- this month. government deferred at least one in Australia have been posted on ington trip failed to resolve differ- our relationship a broad range of lower-level ex- change programs, education visits Both the Prime Minister and Senior government sources scheduled trip from a Chinese the website of the Chinese em- ences between the US and with Beijing is changes to pressure Malcolm and, according to government Foreign Minister are due to go to deny the senior ministerial trips minister and is pressuring business bassy in Canberra. Australia, such as the Trans- toxic at a Turnbull over the new foreign in- sources, deferred a trip by Foreign China this year as part of a formal have been affected and Mr Turn- and educational bodies to split Chinese state media reports Continued on Page 2 working level. terference laws and naval chal- Affairs departmental secretary agreement to have annual meet- bull plans to go to Beijing later in from government policy. since Mr Turnbull’s trip to Wash- DENNIS lenges to disputed Chinese claims Frances Adamson, Australia’s ings between Chinese and Austra- the year while Ms Bishop is wait- reported last ington and meeting with US Presi- GREG SHERIDAN P12 The Australian SHANAHAN P2 in the South China Sea. highest-ranking diplomat and a lian leaders and foreign ministers. ing for the end of the People’s week that university leaders were dent Donald Trump have sought PAUL DIBB P12 Shorten’s excellent $17,000 ‘coral and coal’ adventure Airbag recall to JOE KELLY OUT ON THE REEF Union Bill SARAH ELKS spark Bill Shorten accepted a $17,000 ‘did little private green-funded tour of the chaos Great Barrier Reef and charter for women’ flight over the Adani coalmine, during which he pledged to envi- ronmentalists that a Labor gov- EXCLUSIVE ernment would seek to use federal laws to revoke the licence of the BRAD NORINGTON Indian mining giant. ASSOCIATE EDITOR The Australian Conservation Fund bankrolled a reef tour off The first female president of Port Douglas after the Opposition the ACTU has lashed Bill Leader approached millionaire Shorten for doing little to help One of the Subarus environmentalist Geoff Cousins women and failing to represent affected by the recall before Christmas last year. their interests during his past Mr Shorten disclosed details of life as head of the Australian the flights and snorkelling trip on Workers Union. EAN HIGGINS his register of interest on Tuesday, Before Christmas January Jennie George, a respected SAM BUCKINGHAM-JONES the same day Mr Cousins claimed Bill Shorten reaches 23, 2018 women’s rights campaigner he had received assurances from out to Geoff Shorten who led Australia’s union Millions of car owners face a the Labor leader that the oppo- Cousins to arrange travels to movement and then served as slow, confusing and chaotic sition was on track to move against North Port a federal Labor MP, has also effort to identify whether they the $16.5bn Adani project. Queensland trip Douglas declared “the boys’ club are driving a vehicle that has an Mr Shorten boarded the Wave- to inform ALP with remains alive and well” inside airbag that could kill or maim length Reef Cruises vessel on policy on Adani Wavelength Reef Cruises, paid meets with O’Shanassy and in the black-throated finch at the ALP Victorian right power them by sending exploding January 23 to visit two sites on the Cousins at a Port Douglas café, the University of Queensland. base that Mr Shorten controls shrapnel through their eyes, January 23, for by the Australian Opal Reef. Mr Shorten was escort- 2018 Conservation Fund; snorkels at where he discusses how Labor January 30, 2018 — with just two women MPs brain, vocal cords or spine, and ed on the tour by the ACF, Austra- two sites on Opal Reef, using in office could use the EPBC out of 10 in the House of have it replaced. Shorten Shorten delivers address at lian Marine Conservation Society laminated photos to assess Act to revoke Adani coalmine Representatives. Assistant Minister to the announces a National Press Club, where he campaign director Imogen Zetho- coral bleaching. Accompanied licence. “It’s fair to say that his Treasurer Michael Sukkar yes- Labor discusses the Great Barrier ven, and reef expert Terry Hughes. by Cousins, ACF CEO Kelly union, the AWU, did not take terday announced a long-antic- government January 24, 2018 Reef. Says Adani project has to The next day, Mr Shorten O’Shanassy, Australian Marine the issue of women’s ipated compulsory recall to be would set up Shorten travels on charter flight stack up “environmentally”. joined reef, groundwater and Conservation Society campaign representation seriously in the conducted over two years of four black-throated finch experts on an expert panel over the Adani mine site – from January 31, 2018 decades of struggle to make million vehicles equipped with director Imogen Zethoven and Cairns to Carmichael River and ACF-funded charter flight from to determine The ACF suggests on social the movement more Takata airbags. James Cook University coral Doongmabulla Springs, ending Cairns to Carmichael River and how a $1bn media that Shorten’s speech representative of its While almost one in five pass- reef professor Terry Hughes in Townsville. Cousins and Doongmabulla, including flying Northern Australia Tourism could be hint that “an incoming membership,” she says. enger vehicles on Australian O’Shanassy on flight, along over the Adani site, before ending Infrastructure Fund would be January 23, 2018 Labor government might Ms George’s scorching roads have now been recalled, with Dr April Reside, an expert up in Townsville, accompanied by spent Following reef tour, Shorten attempt” to stop Adani. critique of Mr Shorten is in the voluntary recall process has Mr Cousins and ACF chief execu- direct response to comments not been effective in some cases, tive Kelly O’Shanassy. by Labor’s leader for a profile and some manufacturers have Following the reef tour, the trio BEFORE THE TOUR AFTER THE TOUR in men’s magazine GQ that he not taken satisfactory action to had met at a Port Douglas cafe I support the Adani coalmine so long You can’t be serious about climate change and energy and regretted not promoting more address the serious safety risk where they discussed how Labor as it stacks up. I hope it stacks up, by have a bet every which way. So we’re certainly looking at the women “when I had the which arises after the airbags are could use the Environment Pro- Bill Shorten in Cairns on chance”. more than six years old,” Mr tection and Biodiversity Conser- the way.... I want to see more jobs in Adani matter very closely. If it doesn’t stack up … it will “The best thing I can do Sukkar said. “To ensure a co- January 23 this year and, regional Queensland. APRIL 12, 2017 absolutely not receive our support. JANUARY 30, 2018 vation Act to block the project. inset, a Wavelength reef boat Continued on Page 4 ordinated recall, over the next “We did talk about how Labor two years, manufacturers will be could oppose the mine and what required to progressively ident- options are available to Labor to receive our support”.

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