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Former NSW Senator Sam Dastyari.

Following Australia, Singapore approves foreign interference law

Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari’s ties with a billionaire Chinese political donor were raised in Singapore’s Parliament as controversial new powers were approved.

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Former senator Sam Dastyari quit politics in December 2017.

Dastyari a lesson in politics for Singapore

Forget China. Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari has made it big in Singapore.

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Seeing Red: Labor's China problem

An encounter over a seemingly innocuous sticker on a Labor senator's office door underscored the bitter divisions within Labor over China.

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Chinese flag flies outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong.

Inside the global alliance attempting to stifle China

The medieval church cloisters in the small Dutch city of Maastricht are an unlikely setting for Chinese Communist Party influence. 

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Former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke in 2016.

States fight it out for seat named in honour of Bob Hawke

A tug-of-war over the legacy of Labor prime minister Bob Hawke is brewing as Australia's election umpire prepares to name a federal electorate in his honour.

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Former Labor senator Sam Dastyari.

'Flabbergasted': Dastyari calls for judicial inquiry into foreign influence in politics

The former Labor senator Sam Dastyari called for a royal commission or commission of inquiry to "get to the bottom of it".

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Labor backbencher Anthony Byrne has been counselled over the leak of damaging text messages.

Albanese counsels veteran Labor MP caught up in corruption inquiry

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has counselled veteran MP Anthony Byrne over his damaging leaked text messages.

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Labor MP Anthony Byrne:  "I welcome investigations into corruption, which has no place in the party I love.”

'Crooked, corrupt': Explosive private text messages leaked as Labor scandal escalates

Veteran federal Labor MP Anthony Byrne called former colleague Sam Dastyari a 'crooked, corrupt f---' and labelled a female MP a 'drunk' in dozens of text messages released by former party powerbroker Adem Somyurek.

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