Victorian Premier DanielAndrewsMP is facing growing pressure to “see sense” and tear up a secretive deal with China that even Labor voters don’t support.
Last week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled new legislation that would effectively tear up Victoria’s multimillion-dollar deal with Beijing by giving the federal government power to cancel any state or local government’s deal with a foreign power if it is deemed “inconsistent with federal foreign affairs policy”.
“My concern has always been to grow jobs. And I’ve always seen these arrangements and all of our arrangements, not just with any one country but with all the different countries, different states, different provinces, different regions that we have relationships with, they’ve always been about a passport to export.”
In a leaked recording of a Zoom conference with Liberal Party members earlier this month, former Defence Minister Kevin Andrews was asked whether the Victorian Premier had committed “high treason”. “There are lots of dangers here and what Dan Andrews has done is totally unacceptable,” he said. “The Australian government is right to call it out and stop any untoward investment in Australia.”
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