A self-professed adviser to the Assistant Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, Craig Laundy, is closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party's secretive overseas lobbying organisation and has boasted of pushing the coalition MP to back Beijing's interests.

Chinese-Australian businessman Yang Dongdong, who as recently as March described himself as Mr Laundy's "community adviser", has also claimed to have supplied mobile phone services to China's leaders and navy officials when they visit Australia.