ANALYSIS: Why did the Government announce its plan for a veto over university agreements this week?
"We have a range of agreements and MOUs with China; they govern infrastructure and other cooperation opportunities, and state and territory governments also look to expand those opportunities."
"They're the responsibilities of the Commonwealth Government and I would've hoped the Victorian Government would've taken a more cooperative approach to that process," he said. They may also reflect the fact that it probably still rankles with the Prime Minister that he was Treasurer — and therefore the bloke with final say over foreign investment decisions — when the Port of Darwin was sold to the Chinese in 2015.
It's just that the Government chose this week, of all weeks, to announce this concern for all these "arrangements of this nature, of this level" — which Payne pointed out in 2018 were made "regularly with other countries in this region and more broadly" — were alarming enough to provoke an entire new body of federal law.
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