Recipients of letters are"strongly encourage[d]" to consider whether they have undertaken"registerable activity"
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information show the big banks, large telecommunications companies, media organisations , multicultural groups and advocacy groups were written to in a mass mailout earlier this year. One, Chen Hong of East China Normal University, told the ABC that concerns about China's political influence on Australian politics were"a hysterical response to the so-called mad China threat, it is totally fabricated".But the institute's executive director, Bryce Wakefield, said he did not believe the event needed to be registered.
But the institute does plan on registering after taking a donation from the Japanese Government earlier in the year.
Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)
'including the ABC', Hmmm why would that be I wonder, is it because the ABC likes to regurgitate stuff from The Guardian and Al Jazeera?
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