Finally, Bill Shorten has cracked it for a LOL joke. One month and three days after a "private" Chinese investor called Landbridge Group paid $504 million for a 99-year lease on the Port of Darwin, our zinging Opposition Leader has demanded an "urgent" briefing on the process that allowed the deal to happen. Shorten is concerned that the deal was not subject to the rigours of a formal review by the Foreign Investment Review Board. And his need for speed is, reportedly, the product of a translation of the Landbridge website made by the folk at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which now claims Landbridge is a commercial front for the Communist Party and the...
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