Former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is a Chinese prostitute. And I know that’s a very offensive thing for me to say.

So, I’d like to extend a sincere apology to all the prostitutes for insulting you like that by comparing you to Daniel Andrews. But sadly, it has to be done because Daniel Andrews appears to now be making a fortune out of the fact that he [….] 6 million Victorians. Step aside, Bonnie Blue. This is a record you will never be able to match. And he is perhaps the worst example, but Daniel Andrews leads a hay room of Sino suck ups, including former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, whose proudest accomplishments seem to be that he spoke Mandarin, as well as former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr, whose proudest accomplishment seemed to be, actually, I have no idea what he ever accomplished, but he joined Daniel Andrews at the parade, not to mention our current Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, who we will get to in a moment.

And then there’s a bunch of current and former Australian prime ministers and state premers who are big big fans of China. Andrews received the red carpet treatment at a Chinese victory parade celebrating the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. And sure, from the Chinese perspective, that is well worth celebrating. But it’s not clear why any former Australian state premiers like Daniel Andrews and Bob Carr needed to be there at all. And it is truly extraordinary that a former premier like Daniel Andrews should get the VIP treatment usually reserved for current presidents and current prime ministers.

And this matters because there are some uncomfortable parallels to history and in particular parallels to the Neville Chamberlain peace in our time naivety when Neville Chamberlain faced off with Hitler before World War II. And the last thing Australia needs right now is a bunch of useful idiots running around speaking in our name. Now, to be clear, I’m a firm believer in trade with the Chinese and with Russia and North Korea, if such a thing were possible. When goods stop crossing national borders, that’s when troops soon follow. So, we need to keep the trade lines open and we need to keep diplomatic dialogue and do our best to avoid conflict as far as we can when it’s in our national interest to do so.

But I don’t believe for a second that the sycophantic Sino suck-ups Rudd or car or especially Daniel Andrews have anything but their own best interests at heart. Making matters worse, current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese didn’t attend this parade, but he isn’t just Daniel Andrew’s mate. Based on his continued support for Rudd as the ambassador to the US pissing off our actual most important ally and based on his lack of condemnation for Daniel Andrews attendance at this Chinese military victory parade. It’s fair to ask if our current prime minister is in fact birds of a feather with Bob Carr with Daniel Andrews and with Kevin Rudd and whether perhaps our current prime minister is keen to suck up to the Chinese also regardless of whether that’s what’s best for Australia.

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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Too often these days, politicians view their time as premier or even as prime minister not as the pinnacle of their careers and a privilege to serve, but rather they treat it as a job interview for what they view as their bigger and better future roles with the UN or with other globalist bodies or perhaps to carry favor for future business dealings. No longer is becoming a head of state a final objective. It is a mere stepping stone which means that your legacy as that head of state in the opinion of the people that you served is no longer your primary concern. Rather, decisions are now being made with one eye on how it will affect their future opportunities post politics.

This isn’t unique to heads of state either. The revolving door between politics and lobbying. Not to mention the frequency with which former government ministers end up getting well-paid board positions on the boards of the companies they awarded multi-million or multi-billion-dollar taxpayer funded contracts to is a well-known problem. And it’s hard to prove with certainty that it is actually corruption, but it sure has the look of a you scratch our back while you’re in government and then we’ll scratch your back when you leave type of scheme. And when it comes to public trust, the appearance of corruption is just as corrosive as the reality of corruption.

And the same is true of having a former Victorian state premier showing up to a Chinese military parade, all smiles, and weirdly being included in a group family photo made up of current heads of countries, not former heads of states and municipalities. It’s weird. He’s out of place in this photo, but he’s also right at home. Also in attendance at this event were national presidents including Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, as well as the presidents of Iran, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Vietnam, Maldives, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Serbia, and prime ministers from Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal, and Slovakia. All of them current heads of countries.

And then there was the former state premier Daniel Andrews who wasn’t just there. He was one of the people given an all-smiles red carpet handshake reception with a one-on-one handshake with Xi Jinping himself. He was included in the headline photograph the family photo so-called. Albeit, I can’t help but notice that he’s off to one side and up the top where it would be very easy to make him disappear via Photoshop Stalin style in future. But nevertheless, he is there in that family photo and it makes no sense.

What did Daniel Andrews do to deserve this? And did he do that thing while he was premier of Victoria? Is he so warmly welcomed in China because he prostituted the state of Victoria to them during his 9 years as premier? Well, let’s look at the evidence and what we know about some of the things that Daniel Andrews got up to in his time as premier of Victoria when he was serving the people of Victoria. Of course, and not at all feathering his nest in preparation for his life after politics. Of course not. That would be a wild conspiracy theory.

Daniel Andrews became Victorian premier in 2014 and wasted no time in getting over to China, snapping this happy snap in Tiananmen Square in 2015.

And we have very little other information about what he got up to on that particular trip. He returned to China again in 2016. Again, we don’t know a lot about that particular trip. But in 2017, he returned to China for the third year in a row as Victorian premier. This time to attend the Belt and Road Forum. It’s worth noting in the context of this photo where he’s the o one of the only subnational leaders, i.e. the leader of a state and not a country, that he was also the only subnational leader to attend Xi Jinping’s 2017 belt and road forum.

It appears that Daniel Andrews wasn’t content with being a state premier. He was determined to engage in international diplomacy that was well above his pay grade. And Daniel Andrews didn’t just attend. He delivered a speech at that Belt and Road Forum in 2017. But much of what else happened at that forum was done behind closed doors and media coverage was very limited. A theme that will continue as we go. Now the following year, Daniel Andrews officially signed Victoria up to the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018. Now, that’s basically an influence buying scheme from the Chinese via a formal memorandum of understanding where Daniel Andrews positioned Victoria as a global leader in the Belt and Road Initiative and essentially turned Victoria into just another Pacific island under Chinese control.

Then Andrews went back in 2019 to another Belt and Road Forum, signing more deals with relatively little media scrutiny. Then Covid happened. And if you want to know what Daniel Andrews got up to during Covid, you can watch my multi-award-winning documentary about it completely for free at battlegroundmelbourne.com. You don’t have to pay me anything. You don’t even have to give me your email address. Just go to battleground.com and you can watch it. It is a feature length internationally acclaimed multi-award-winning documentary about Daniel Andrews and his human rights abuses during Covid.

But then right in the middle of the Covid years in April and May 2021, the Australian government ripped up the Victorian Belt and Road Initiative deals, setting Daniel Andrews hard work all the way back to the beginning. But he wasn’t done yet. Daniel Andrews won re-election as Victorian premier premier in very late 2022. And just months later in March 2023, he suddenly jetted off at short notice and spent 4 days in China on a trade mission. And he explicitly did not invite any Australian media to go with him, claiming that it was a trip filled with back-to-back meetings and there was nothing for them to photograph.

This meant that Victorian taxpayers who were funding that trip and paying for whatever promises or deals Daniel Andrews made over those four days as Victorian premier, the taxpayers had to rely on Chinese state media for reports about what our taxpayer funded state premier Daniel Andrews was up to in our name, which means that we heard basically nothing. Then six months after he came back from that trip, Daniel Andrews, less than one year into his new term as Victorian Premier, suddenly announced his resignation. The reason for that resignation, well, the way he said it was that he was having thoughts of what life will be like after this job.

Well, forgive my cynicism, but it really has the appearance to me that like maybe he was having thoughts about how much money he was about to make thanks to all the business deals that he’d lined up with China while he was premier and while he was in China on the taxpayers’ dime. He resigned effective practically immediately, literally 5:00 p.m. the following day. And then by January 2024, just four months after his resignation and 10 months after his sudden, mysterious 4-day visit to China with no media scrutiny, the news broke that he had founded two new companies. And one of his business partners was a man by the name of Jang May, also known as Marty May, a man who is reported to have accompanied Daniel Andrews on his many trips to China and was personally involved in the Belt and Road Initiative negotiations.

These two companies, Glen Can Street and Wedgeable Partners, have no public website and no obvious way for you or I to do business with them. Make of that what you will. And then even though he’s no longer even a state premier and was never a national leader at all, he’s invited to join Chinese President Xi Jinping where they literally roll out the red carpet for Daniel Andrews and include him in the official family photo with other people who are current heads of nations. Make it make sense. Explain to me what it is that makes Daniel Andrews, former Victorian state premier, someone who belongs in this picture.

Now, Daniel Andrews defends his belt and road deals to this day and defends his latest trip to China by saying that a constructive relationship with China, our largest trading partner, is in the national interest.

That hasn’t changed. Sure, Dan, but you don’t and never did represent the nation. And what has changed is that you no longer even represent Victoria, and all of your belt and road deals have been abolished. Daniel Andrews is hoping with world leaders when he was never one of them. And he’s talking like he represents Australia when he never did.

But his inflated opinion of himself is neither here nor there. He’s looked like a psychopath to me for 10 years. That’s not news. The question is why does Xi Jinping consider him to be worthy of inclusion in the family photo alongside current national leaders of some of the world’s largest countries. To be fair, there were other former prime ministers and former state premiers from other Western countries also in attendance. For example, there were two former New Zealand prime ministers, Helen Clark and John Key. They attended the parade, but they’re not in that photo. Why is Dan?

Now, I’m not saying that Daniel Andrews has engaged in corruption. I’m not saying that he was making private business deals whilst in China on the taxpayers’ dime and while he was still serving as the Victorian premier. Of course, I’m not accusing him of anything. All I’m saying is that his activities create the appearance of the opportunity for corruption and that reasonable people would be justified in noticing and perhaps wondering what these appearances might mean. Perhaps there is some sort of charitable explanation for it all. But the timeline sure gives the appearance that Daniel Andrews could have used his time and trips to China whilst premier of Victoria to prepare the way for his own future business dealings following his sudden resignation.

And that those business dealings would have to be dealings at the very highest levels of the Chinese government. Or else why is he in that photo? Like I said earlier, the appearance of corruption is just as corrosive to public trust as actual corruption is. So if there is indeed a more charitable way to view the available information, I invite Daniel Andrews to come forward publicly and clear the air. Dispel the perception that has been created.

But perception or not, why does this matter? Well, it matters because whilst Daniel Andrews may be a particularly striking example of this appearance of corruption, he’s not the first and he won’t be the last. And it’s a matter of public record that Daniel Andrews and current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are very good mates. They once shared a house together. And Anthony Albanese supported Daniel Andrews despite all of the controversies of his actions during co and his relationships with China and the Belt and Road Initiative. And Anthony Albanese has refused to speak out against Daniel Andrews attendance at this Chinese military parade. Despite the fact that Anthony Albanese sent Australia’s own ambassador to China away from the event, he wasn’t allowed to be present. He was sent 2,000 kilometers away to avoid the event altogether.

The Australian ambassador was not permitted to be there, but the Australian prime minister doesn’t object to Daniel Andrews being in the family photo and seemingly speaking on our behalf.

All of this is to say nothing of the human rights abuses of Daniel Andrews during Covid or of the unanswered questions about the Andrews car colliding with Ryan Meuleman, the 15-year-old cyclist who was almost killed in the impact. And none of this stench around Daniel Andrews seems to have deterred the Chinese at all. And why would it? Human rights. What are they? See, the truth is that Daniel Andrews is not out of place in this photo. He’s right at home. He’s found his tribe, and it’s not Australia or Victorians.

Now, I’m not sure how we do this, but we have to find a way to stop politicians and indeed senior bureaucrats as well from using their time in office to feather their nests for their next step. We have to get back to a world where becoming a state premier or a prime minister is the pinnacle of someone’s professional life and is the thing whether that that they care about the most that they want to protect their legacy going forward and not simply use it to prepare for their next step. A ban on former politicians receiving money from anyone they awarded contracts to while they were in office might be a great start, but such things are almost impossible to police because intermediary shell companies can be easily used. And likewise, there’s a million different ways to circumvent almost anything that we might try to do to stop people from feathering their futures on the taxpayers’ dime.

In the end, like everything, it does come down to us as voters and to our political parties themselves and who they put forward for election. We need to change the political incentives in this country if we want to get better options at the ballot box. Daniel Andrews is a cautionary tale of what happens when you hand power to a Chinese prostitute. And it seems that even after his retirement from politics, he hasn’t finished screwing us.

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