US EditionTaskforce to investigate polling recruits for Clare O’Neil and Monique Ryan
- In April 2025, Monique Ryan, the teal MP, reported concerns about possible foreign interference involving her volunteers and the Hubei Association to Australia's electoral authorities.
- The allegations arose after a video showed volunteers claiming they were directed by Ji Jianmin, president of the Hubei Association linked to the Chinese Communist Party, to support Ryan's campaign.
- Ryan acknowledged public interactions with Ji but denied private meetings or policy lobbying and stated she had not sought his endorsement or involvement.
- Electoral watchdogs including the Australian Electoral Commission and the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce, supported by ASIO, are reviewing the serious allegations of foreign interference in the Kooyong electorate.
- This case highlights ongoing concerns about transparency and foreign influence in Australian politics, especially within Chinese-Australian communities representing 20% of Kooyong's population.
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ThePatriotLight - Labor, Greens, Teal Probed Over CCP-Backed Foreign Election Interference Links
ThePatriotLight - Voters are being urged not to fall prey to interference when they cast their vote in the federal election.The Hubei Association has been accused of links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s United Work Front Department, a branch tasked with gathering intelligence on and exerting influence abroad.Hubei Association president Ji Jianmin denied any involvement from the CCP, and said both Labor and the Greens had approached his g…
Federal election 2025 LIVE UPDATES: Teal MP Monique Ryan’s volunteer says he has has no Chinese communist links
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Election Watchdog Investigates CCP-Linked Backing of Teal MP Monique Ryan
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has referred a matter involving suspicious political support for Teal MP Monique Ryan for further investigation. The move comes after a video emerged showing two volunteers of Chinese appearance, Jessica and Steven, wearing campaign shirts and holding flyers for the Teal candidate. Jessica tells the interviewer that her “friends” recommended she support Ryan, and that the MP for the affluent electorate o…
Chinese Australians, Previously Scorned, Are Now Courted as Nation Nears Tight Election
It was deep into World War II when Mark Wang’s father, who worked for China’s military intelligence, left Shanghai to meet with U.S. General Douglas MacArthur in Melbourne, Australia. Since China had no functioning consulate in the city, they chose to talk in the home of a prominent local businessman, whose family had first emigrated from China in the mid-1830s. In between discussions on how best to expel the Axis Powers from China, the pretty d…
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