“What do we know about Liberal Gladys Liu?” a male voice says in the ad, with an ominous-sounding background track.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told reporters in Melbourne on Sunday that Liu, who holds the ultra-marginal eastern suburbs seat of Chisholm, was a “proud Australian citizen” and admonished the “desperate, dishonest, racist attack ad by the Labor Party” without specifically outlining why he believed it was inappropriate to reference Liu’s links to the donations.
“The Labor Party here is ... engaging in scare tactics, and in a racist attack ad on the first Chinese-born person to sit in the House of Representatives,” he said.“Gladys Liu is a very effective local member. I’ve been out campaigning with her twice over the course of this campaign. She is a proud Australian citizen. And this racist attack ad by the Labor Party has no place in our community.
“I think there were questions that she should have answered then and it is legitimate for those to be answered.”Foreign policy and national security have emerged as a fault line during the election campaign. The opposition has attacked the Coalition for failing to use diplomatic pressure to stop
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