Andrew robb did get a cushy $73K a month gig with the Chinese running the Darwin port
Yeah, you're right - Landbridge, not Huawei:
Mr Robb says he was writing a report on Australia's health system for the Chinese government, but the bilateral relationship was "too toxic" to deliver it.
www.smh.com.au
Former trade minister Andrew Robb has quietly ceased his controversial $880,000 per annum consultancy with a company closely linked to the Chinese government, as the deadline looms for lobbyists for overseas state interests to sign up to Australia’s new foreign influence register.
Mr Robb’s consultancy with the leaseholder of the Darwin Port, Landbridge, was trumpeted by the Chinese-government aligned company in 2016, but became intensely controversial when an investigation by
The Age,
The Sydney Morning Herald and Four Corners
revealed his fee, and that he had joined the company straight after quitting parliament.
From left, now Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Landbridge chief Ye Cheng and then trade minister Andrew Robb at a northern development conference in 2015. Credit: Glenn Campbell
I once had Robb say straight to my face, as if there was no problem with the concept at all, that I wouldn't get the NBN until last if I was in a safe seat (he never inquired into which seat I was in, could have been LNP). To him that made sense and was not problematic. Fuck that guy with stretch for treason.
www.theguardian.com
