Federal Government seeks power to veto Victorian deal with China

Victoria's controversial trade deal with Beijing may be scrapped by Australia's Foreign Minister, using new powers being proposed by the Federal Government.The proposed laws would allow Australia's Foreign Minister to cancel agreements with other countriesPrime Minister Scott Morrison said the Commonwealth should dictate Australia's foreign policy

A public register would soon be established where all existing arrangements would have to be disclosed, then reviewed by the Foreign Minister. The deal has angered many in the Coalition who were worried about Chinese influence in Australia, but Premier Daniel Andrews insisted the deal is designed to boost the Victorian economy and jobs., who said the Belt and Road deal increased the Chinese Government's ability to "do harm".

Now the Federal Government wants veto powers over any future agreements, arguing that constitutionally the Commonwealth has exclusive responsibility for conducting Australia's foreign affairs and for representing Australia internationally.

Wise move. Time to stop China from stealing and all kinds of intervention

Don't give RMB to make you blindness.

States politicians dealing with China would never be acting in Australia's best interest.

Anything Chinese return to sender.

It's time to root out all pro-China party in Australia to stop China infiltration

Please alert and wake up Australia Australian ! If not, CCP 🇨🇳 will renege and re-writing history in anytime! You can see what happens in HongKong nowadays!

This should have hapoened years ago. The states gave up external powers at federation & Australian federal & state Politicians should never have been so blinded by any single state as to allow such agreements.

Good move Aus. It's time to unite and act as one.

Good. Now let's buy back the prime agricultural land, air strips, ports and other critical infrastructure the CCP have bought with their Shadow Banking system.

Barge arse Payne is part of the problem......

DFAT & Payneful won't talk about their Deal with China!

Why did they wait 30 years. Scum politics

Good.

And people are screaming about over reach by Andrews on powers under a pandemic? 🤦‍♂️

Is that what Victoria people want?

Great work Marise keep your eye on comrade Dan

So Darwin port is going to be scrapped as well?

Oh dear. Another day of drip feeding anti China propaganda from our Trump loving PM, who just can’t stop digging

Good

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'One of the most important jobs of the Federal Government is to protect and promote Australia's national interest.' In 2017, concerns over foreign interference... register for anyone working on behalf of other nations to influence Australian politics.

So what happened to State sovereignty?

Sure, can ScottMorrisonMP also veto his deals for the sale of port of Newcastle, and 99 year lease of port of Darwin to China? Or do we not talk about the deals ScottyFromMarketing is involved in

The PM ScottMorrisonMP seeks to distract the media from AgedCareCrisis and BranchStacking There ifixeditforyou

Seeks powers? You wish. Funny, Dan Andrews wasn't 'seeking power' to further close the state down. We're on to you ABC. And all over it.

That Dictator Morrison making another power grab and infringing our rights! says no Liberal voter or Murdoch paper. auspol

So they want to get back at China and they have no leverage except for Victoria's trade to do it? The federal government treats us like we are a hostile country.

Victorian should have alerted the threat from China! Or Victoria would be as the city of CCP very soon!

Scott Morrison’s hate for Victoria

Poor journalism. So many factual errors. It's not a deal. Definition'an agreement entered into by two or more parties '.There is no deal or agreement. It's a letter of intention only. 2ndly, its not respective. It's like saying the feds passed a bill.They haven't. TheRealPBarry

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Yet the Feds sold Darwin Port to China!

If only the lnp spent as much time on 'making aust better' policy as they do on distraction policies......

Maybe they could use it to revoke the sale of the port of Darwin?

Why.

Boycott evil china

Hear, hear

I'm betting 99%of Australian's did not know States and Territories had powers that didn't require Federal approval. The selling of Darwin Harbour? Daniel Andrews Belt and Road Initiatives with China? You have got to be joking! Responsible decision by Scott Morrison! 🇦🇺

Andrews beatup , will Fed govt now overturn the Darwin port sale too?

Why did it take ScottMorrisonMP so long to deal with this? Is it because he couldn't land a blow on the COVID front, & someone pointed this out?

That’s a wise decision! Ccp is not a trustworthy partner as it tries to use economic incentives to enhance its political power in other regions. It is a good start to aware the potential risk cooperating with ccp.

I support the federal government. Cancel CCP DanielAndrewsMP ‘s evil contract with China. CCP cannot be trusted. It must have infiltrated Dan and his party. ASIO please investigate this. Freedom or Authoritarian is a no brainer choice, but Dan chooses evil. Lock him up

At last.

So free trade agreements can now be torn up, such as the pharmaceutical.

Do it ASAP. The Belt and Road project is going to hurt Ausutralia in the long run. If you don't want Victoria to be controlled by CCP, abandon that deal now.

Australia, do you remember China referred you as 'gum stuck to China's shoe'? It's time to stand up against the bully DecoupleFromChina

The CCP has been infiltrating Australia for many years. The current situation is serious and must be stopped immediately😖

I feel envy. The Australia Govenment make right decision and try to protect their peoples.

Every trade relationship is important but no one relationship, however important, should be used to silence against the promotion of human rights.

🇨🇳😈 Bail and Rob

Good move. Stop putting money in that BRI trap.

Interest of the entire Australia is more important then a single state profits-driven agreement. A win win situation means China wins twice. BoycottMadeInChina ChinaLiedPeopleDied

Retrospective?

Cool cool cool cool cool Just so happy for more AU first and MakeChinaPay plans

This would be a good, and appropriate move. The Victorian government has made a mistake over the B&R deal, and that is certainly clear in hindsight (and should have been with foresight). Issues with foreign policy implications properly reside with the federal government.

political games would only worsen our economy

Silence21240183 Well done! The belt and road initiative is the biggest hoax in the world! China burdens the developing countries with mounting debts that they can barely repay! We can foresee these countries will be forced to sell roads, ports to China in exchange! Another kind of colonisation!

tanyacoleart Thank you JoshFrydenberg ScottMorrisonMP I agree on humanitarian grounds. IMHO the 3D university covid19 project requires examination to avoid harm. Who gave permission for this and when? 3AWNeilMitchell Neil, I would like to talk to you about this matter.

Fingers crossed this passes! Then they can review the various owners of Australian waterways that are Foreign owned and return them to Australian owners.

Dan ¥¥¥¥Yuan from Covid Victoria 19 -- Beijing Belt and Road deal!!!!

LunWong8 Oh yeah👏💪👏💪👏💪👏💪

I couldnt GAF if it's China, USA, UK, Europe or bloody Russia... These people aren't are 'friends' talking about deals to protect us. These countries are CONSUMERS. Now how many businesses piss off customers because we 'disagree with thier views'? No... we take the bloody sale.

The Morrison government is a dictatorship

Constitutionally unsound proposal.

Yes, please reverse us out of the various predatory investment agreements inked by Dan and the other dupes with that genocidal dictatorship. The sooner the mfing better.

You would have thought a financially responsible government would have a plan B in place before destroying the relationship with our major trading partner.

So we can’t have general agreements of principal? Lol. The belt and road kefuffle is 100% political bs from the Liberals which is QLD yellow peril nonsense from the 80’s.

Let not dictator Dan ruin our country

Far away from CCP, rise up VIC! God bless everyone.

I'm pleased the Federal Government has finally acted to protect the sovereignty of Australia and the State of Victoria. ScottMorrisonMP DanielAndrewsMP

Victoria never had a Belt and Road deal, they signed a general agreement. The deal the Libs wanted and started..

I don't understand the western ego. They still live in the 70's thinking that Asians are weak. In fact, some Asian countries such as China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore are so much more advance and better than many western countries. I will do business with China.

Take back all Chinese assets in Australia as repatriations.

A+ 👍

Yeah but didn’t the Feds sign an FTA with China, details of which haven’t been made public

More hurt feelings for China 🇨🇳

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