The Health Minister agreed to a press conference to thank Andrew Forrest for using his contacts to source virus testing kits from China. He thought Long Zhou was an employee of Fortescue.
The first time that Health Minister Greg Hunt knew that Andrew Forrest had invited China's Victorian consul-general to gatecrash Wednesday's press conference was as they walked along the corridor towards the waiting cameras.
Hunt, who had agreed to a press conference to thank Forrest for using his contacts to source 10 million coronavirus testing kits from China, initially thought Long Zhou was an employee of Fortescue.
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