Australia’s Shadow Home Affairs Minister has met with an organisation linked to the United Front Work Department (UFWD), the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) main foreign influence body. In mid-September, Kristina Keneally, the Australian Labor Party’s home affairs spokesperson, was nominated to run in the multicultural federal electorate of Fowler in Sydney’s southwest. On Oct. 19, she met with Hung Ly and local Councillor Kien Ly at the Australia Chinese Teochew Association. Hung Ly is also the head of the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (ACPPRC), whose previous president was the controversial billionaire Huang Xiangmo. The ACPPRC is an affiliate of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which noted that the UFWD controlled the body. “It was great to meet with the Australian Chinese Teochew Association in Cabramatta last week,” Senator Keneally wrote on Twitter. …
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