“He leased an Australian port to China, then took $880,000 a year from the buyer.”
ANDREW ROBB / PORT OF DARWIN
A Trade Minister signed off a 99-year lease of an Australian port to a Chinese company. The day before he left politics, that same company put him on $880,000 a year.
This one’s been on the public record for years, and it still stops me cold every time.
In 2015, Andrew Robb was the federal Trade Minister. On his watch, the Port of Darwin was leased to Landbridge Group, controlled by Chinese billionaire Ye Cheng, a member of the CPPCC, an advisory body to the Chinese Communist Party. The lease runs 99 years.
On 1 July 2016, the day before the federal election, with Robb on his way out of Parliament, Landbridge began paying him a consultancy worth $880,000 a year. The terms: $73,000 a month for “strategic advice.” No specified deliverables. Thirty days’ notice to end it.
The ministerial standards say a former minister should wait eighteen months before cashing in on their portfolio. Robb waited zero days. He took roughly $2 million from Landbridge before quitting the arrangement in 2019, just ahead of the new foreign-influence register that would have required him to declare it.
I’m not alleging a crime. No crime has been found, and I’m not a court. What I’m pointing at is the structure: the decision in office, the beneficiary, the destination after office, the timing. Lease the port, leave the Parliament, bank the money. All legal. That’s exactly what should worry you.
This is what “legal corruption” looks like in Australia. Not envelopes of cash. A consultancy contract, signed on the way out the door, from the company you just did the favour for.
Cold hard facts. Sourced. Corrected when wrong.
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources — check it yourself
- Michael West Media: https://t.co/HMT5Zyqz7H
- The Canberra Times (leaked contract, judge’s assessment): https://t.co/LDXPh2DYpI
- Originally: ABC Four Corners + Fairfax/SMH, June 2017 (Nick McKenzie reporting)
@ZoeDeeZoe@IRanalyst This stuff sullies the legitimate and fair business owners who always do the right thing. Then we are all tarred with the same brush as those who are ripping off the system.
It stinks.
How to weed out the rorters and leave the good guys alone seems to be a bridge too far.
Anthony Albanese is now wanting Australia's *+$4.5T superannuation pool to become a national asset
✍🏽 Gary Shannon
In other words, making this mammoth amount of money available to the Government for investment into Labor’s green energy dream, housing, infrastructure and reforming the retirement system.
#Sweet Mother Of Jesus, this is communism madness, I mean would you seriously trust these galah’s to manage and invest your hard earned nest egg, which has taken years and years to build, I know I certainly would not.
For me, this is the straw that broke the camel’s back, as early as next week I will begin moving everything out of super.
Superannuation has been great for me, and millions of other Australians, but with this hideous Labor beast lurking, drooling and licking its lips, preparing for the next big money grab………. I’m out.
Make no mistake, these unhinged psychopaths will do what they are suggesting, and a whole lot more, they are just getting started.
These people are destroying Australia’s past and future, they have the power, and they intend to use it on so many levels, their egos out of control, and that makes them very, very dangerous.
Start making different plans, stay ahead of them, and good luck.
God Bless.
Popular far-left French politician Louis Boyard discreetly took off his Rolex worth $50,000 before giving an interview ‘denouncing the ultra-rich.’
Hypocrisy at its finest.
Every single day on @AustralianLabor Govt funded building sites, millions of dollars of public money is stolen. Everyone in the building game knows. Huge building companies involved are quiet about it, and get vastly richer off public funds for their silence, This is money that could be used to help vulnerable people in this nation.
And what is the @AustralianLabor Govt’s response to the massive public cost of the crime they have enabled and are benefitting from? It is to push public debt past the trillion mark while also increasing already sky high taxes. This means more honest Australians go further into personal debt and more honest Australian businesses go bankrupt. The mental health toll on honest hard working people is catastrophic.
And now @australianLabor are looking to involve the trillions in Australian superfunds, the blood sweat and tears of honest Aussies, collected over lifetimes of work, to fund more public building works and continue this crime spree. Greed keeps those benefitting from stopping it, fear of reprisal keeps those watching it, but not benefitting, from publicly saying what they see, At some point, if it continues, this country will completely fall apart.
Sums up these 4 traitors! All wealthy living like capitalists whose core beliefs are communism!
Fabians need to be removed from government!
Albo's donor!
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese argued that superannuation funds should be viewed as a national asset.
He said that today. Never once did he mention the fact that it isn't his money or the governments money.
This utter disgrace of a PM is coming for your dough via the super funds. Your money you worked bloody hard for will be pissed up the wall on Chinese made solar and wind junk that will see zero return.
BREAKING NEWS
Sarah Hanson-Young, the one who slugged taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars to fly her lobbyists husband to and from work has lashed out at Pauline Hanson.
The greens have zero credibility
BTW PEOPLE
The little story Albanese told today, how at his first job at the Commonwealth Bank he explained & converted people to using ATM's and wasn't that fabulous technology back then, we are supposed to be impressed, the only small problem is some facts, Albanese went to the Bank in 1980 he was there for 9 months, The CBA. installed their first ATM in late 1981
Facts Matter!
Albanese can never be trusted, Crayfish Albanese
A head full of shit!
Those who criticised the Hanson/Rhinehart relationship what about the Albo/Pratt love in at a super conference. Worse still the attendance of Dan Andrews who bankrupted Vic under the worst corruption seen in Austn politics. Super is the govts next target.
We are, apparently, being governed by corrupt and incompetent morons. The entire Defence Department is not fit for purpose and needs to be completely refitted with people who might know what they are doing. Marles should be the first to go.
https://t.co/qTiek054V1