Gladys Liu, paranoia and the Chinese Communist Party

Does the extent of Beijing's influence in Australian politics provide cause for alarm, or is it vastly exaggerated?

Workers installs a giant Communist Party flag outside a department store in Shanghai, China, Monday, June 20, 2011. China will celebrate the upcoming 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party on July 1. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT AP

Andrew TillettForeign affairs, defence correspondent

Sep 13, 2019 – 8.41pm

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Gladys Liu first captured the attention of federal political watchers at her campaign launch in April 2019 for the eastern Melbourne seat of Chisholm, when she held up a shopping bag printed with a map of the area and pointed out all the places she had lived and worked.

"I love Chisholm!" Liu declared enthusiastically to a packed crowd of blue-shirted supporters, many of them Chinese-Australians, as a beaming Scott Morrison looked on.

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Andrew TillettForeign affairs, defence correspondentAndrew Tillett writes on politics, foreign affairs, defence and security from the Canberra press gallery.