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The racism controversy engulfing Collingwood Football Club and outgoing president
Eddie McGuire is a fiasco and is concentrating minds on who might replace him. McGuire announced he would depart Collingwood after 23 seasons at the end of 2021. Letâs see if he lasts that long.
Eddie Maguire and Christine Holgate.
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John Wylie, who finished up after eight years at the Australian Sports Commission last year, is mentioned as a potential successor. So it was fascinating to see Wylieâs investment business Tanarra touted as potential buyer of Tabcorpâs $3 billion wagering business because owning a stake in a gaming company is incompatible with presiding over a football club. The optics, for one.
Murnainâs happy news amid the long wait for ICAC report
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Itâs been almost 18 months since NSW Laborâs former general secretary
Kaila Murnain sensationally quit her post after an Independent Commission Against Corruption probe catapulted Aldi shopping bags into political consciousness and lifted the lid on her role hiding a $100,000 illegal donation made by Chinese billionaire
Huang Xiangmo.
The NSW Labor lifer - she joined at 15 - was the most powerful of Sussex Street operators. That was until the August 2019 ICAC hearing heard Murnain had told Labor colleague
Kenrick Cheah to âbe carefulâ with an Aldi shopping bag stuffed with $100,000 in cash donated by Yuhu property developer Xiangmo.
ASIO red-flags Liberal Party donor Huifeng Haha Liu as a national security risk
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A Melbourne-based Chinese businessman who has aligned himself to prominent Liberal Party MPs is facing deportation after being assessed by ASIO as a national security risk, an ABC investigation can reveal.
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Melbourne businessman Huifeng Haha Liu is a Liberal Party donor and has links with Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar and backbencher Gladys Liu
He co-founded a community assistance group which has an agreement to receive funding from and share information with the Chinese consulate in Melbourne
ASIO red-flags Liberal Party donor Huifeng Haha Liu over foreign interference risks abc.net.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from abc.net.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Victoria’s tough new political donation laws may face their first major test after the state Liberal Party s fundraising arm diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions into a federal campaign fund in an apparent attempt to sidestep strict local disclosure rules.
Earlier this month the state’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission heard how Liberal fundraising arm Enterprise Victoria channelled both its membership fees and other income into federal campaign accounts, not state accounts.
Amy Sullivan, Executive Director of Enterprise Victoria witness during the virtual IBAC hearing of Operation Sandon . 7th December 2020
IBAC was told during hearings into the Casey land scandal how allegedly corrupt property developer John Woodman avoided publicly disclosing his $70,000 contribution to Enterprise Victoria in 2019 by splitting the payments into $10,000 lots and donating from multiple different companies.