The deputy mayor of a Sydney council, Simon Zhou, spent eight days at a Communist Party training course in China just weeks before becoming a Labor Senate candidate at the 2016 federal election.
Mr Zhou, who was due to face a no-confidence vote at Ryde City Council on Tuesday evening over his links to disgraced Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo, was an Australian representative at the event overseen by the United Front Work Department.
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