Opinion: How much does it cost to compromise an entire country? The answer that we learnt this week: far, far, less than we’d ever imagined. It turns out that you could probably get a grip on the place for about the price of a suburban home
Then we got a bit of a jolt when a cash-hungry Northern Territory government gave the Port of Darwin to a Chinese corporation for 99 years for about half a billion dollars. But the Defence Department reassured us that it could take control of the port at any time under the Defence Act.
Dr Leo Liao, 67, was deputy general manager of Wu International, a property group. He’d supposedly donated $5000 of his own money to NSW Labor. When he was called to testify to the ICAC, he decided to kill himself. He left a note for his wife: ‘‘I have decided to leave this world, which is also my last hardest attempt to prevent you and our daughter from becoming family members of a criminal.’’
And Huang’s price of entry to all of this was $100,000. We don’t know if he laughed at the price tag. He declined to give evidence to the ICAC from his home in Hong Kong. But he must have found it pretty amusing. Because at the same time that he bought NSW Labor, he was gambling almost $800 million on the gaming tables of Crown casino in Melbourne, as recorded in an internal Crown casino email published by this paper a few weeks ago. That was in a single year.
All three major political parties in Canberra now agree in principle to a national corruption-buster, but not in any detail. The government’s proposal has been rejected by the Senate crossbenchers as weak and ineffective.
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