Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Attorney-General (Senator Brandis) to a question without notice relating to the revelations outlined in recent Four Corners and Fairfax investigations that sparked the government into action on donations reform.

It is absolutely critical that we Greens shine a spotlight on what is going on here. Labor and Liberal members of this parliament are implicated through their links to high-profile Chinese businessmen connected to the communist regime in China.

Senator McGrath interjecting—

I know this is a very touchy subject for members of the government. When you consider that the billionaire Chinese property developers Huang Xiangmo and Chau Chak Wing and their associates have made almost $6.7 million in political donations to the government and the opposition, it is no wonder that they are so touchy about it. We have revelations that assistance was afforded to Mr Huang in seeking his citizenship in a way that it would not have been for many other citizens.