A regional NSW council offered Crown land to a Chinese government-backed vocational college to build a training-and-research facility for international students, without the college bidding in a tender process | AngusGthompson
A regional NSW council offered Crown land to a Chinese government-backed vocational college to build a training-and-research facility for international students, without the college bidding in a tender process.
The former Deniliquin Council hoped to turn the local airport into a freight hub for China-bound produce.Australian Strategic Policy Institute researcher Alex Joske said it was unusual to see a provincial minister visiting a regional Australian town to invest in a local project, and all United Front Work Department activities warranted scrutiny.
The Chinese government later pulled its investment and Department of Industry consent was withheld after an objection from a member of the community, but the failed deal has raised alarms about foreign investment in Australian infrastructure. Murray Valley Industry Park, where Ausway College proposed to set up a China-funded research facility."We could see the benefit to both sides," Cr Hall said. "They were coming out to try and train some of their students and, of course, we get a pretty good economic stimulus into an area which we're looking for diversity and basically investment."
The council admitted to the Information and Privacy Commission officer reviewing the FOI request that the tender process "may not have gone ahead". The council resolution submitted for ministerial approval had also been altered to say that Ausway had presented details about developing an aviation academy at Deniliquin airport, despite that never being included in the original report.
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