Premier Daniel Andrews has fended off concerns about human rights abuses linked to a Chinese company building a fleet of trains for Victoria, stressing the importance of local jobs from the $2.3 billion contract.
Mr Andrews said on Monday the government had sought assurances from a subsidiary of CRRC, CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles, that Uighurs were not part of its supply chain. The project to build Victoria's train fleet is 18 months behind schedule.
"We have made our views and preferences and what we want to see happen well-known and have received assurances to that end." "If those judgments are to be made, they should be made by security agencies, not by the US government … They have made some choice, I don't know what the basis of that decision is," he said.
He is making the Opposition electable.
This guy is beyond clueless. He's the Manchurian Premier. Is there any lazy greedy sellout ponzi he doesn't like.
Do not beleve a word of it BUT we quite happily buy toys, electronics, kitchen appliances, craft goods etc made an slave-labouring, genocidal country that sells cheap...
This is a Murdoch hack job For the Morrison government who have sold our ports farms water business ect to China 🇨🇳
Peter Costellos Age doing the rascist anti China bidding of Trump. ...but oops, caught out by NSW and Turnbull china deals. Better luck next time Costello. What a joke of a paper it has become.
This is very disturbing. I worked with Chinese shareholders. I know first hand how they view safety and their use of cheap labour to deliver projects. They are ruthless and morals are not high on their agenda. DanielAndrewsMP’s association with the CCP is deeply worrying auspol
Andrews has absolutely no morals what so ever! Its fine for him if China has over a million innocent people forced to do slave labor and being torture in concentration camps as long as the lying Chinese tell him they won't build our trains! He completely misses the point!
Any symptoms, even the mildest - Mr D Andrews should get tested for a case of the ‘Yellow Fever’.
Yeah right.
Well those assurances should do the trick?!?! FFS, can this shit DanielAndrewsMP government be anymore hands off. Just like hotel quarantine, they just don’t want to get into the detail until it all goes tits up.
Did the Premier offer the same welcome to firms from Japan and India for example. We will get substandard trains years late. But I’m sure Teflon Dan will talk his way out of this one as well.
How many people are replying to this story with goods that were either made in China or parts sourced from China? We all look the other way when we buy cheap imported goods and pretend to ourselves that no workers were exploited in their manufacture. We have no moral high ground.
Slave labour, always! Another illegal contract? Unconstitutional, at least! 😂😂😂😂I forgot, it’s VicCorp!
Did this come up when NSW LNP hired this company to build its trains.
...and you believe them?
And what about China being able to hack and likely stop these trains? Isn’t that a national security issue ScottMorrisonMP DanielAndrewsMP
If DanielAndrewsMP wants the Victorian economy to recover, he needs to have these trains manufactured in the state. The BeltAndRoad debt trap only serves China's interests not ours. auspol ScottMorrisonMP
Mao Tse Dan 19!!!!
Assurance? Bullshit
Chinese Communist Party puppet in charge of Victoria . . . media aids and abets deception
Dan would not care for Human rights - only his own rights and power. No care for Victorian businesses, lives or livelihoods, let alone those of another nation. How much more does he have to do before VictorianLabor replace him or declare no confidence. Do the right thing!
Lol. Promise oranges, deliver lemons
Apparently the Uighurs love being in the re-education camps more than Victorians love being under house arrest for 6mths.
Really? What exactly are they going to say? (Insert fingers crossed behind back) oh yes...we promise. Ridiculous! Grow up. These people can’t lie straight in bed.
& the union hevs ok’d this? Albo, where are you on this?
So as far as Dan Andrews is concerned human rights abuse is okay as long as forced labour is not used to build our trains, he has no moral compass whatsoever.
Oh yeh .... and China wouldn’t tell porkies 😂😂😂
Are you trying to say you've only just learned that China has always used political prisoners to manufacture goods we buy? Will your newfound interest in human rights now include a boycott of Israel? The hypocrisy just never ends ...
Yeah ! Pull the other leg !
And trusted those assurances? Unbelievable! He still thinks he knows better than everyone. What a joke!!!
We want see the written proof of this between the two parties please...... If DA did as you reporting, We like see the paperwork or transcripts between DA and the Chinese company building them on the news as well!
Andrews is the last person in this country to be talking about HUMAN RIGHTS. JailDanAndrews DanLiedPeopleDied
So the state government does not have a problem with the Chinese imprisoning these people as long as they we not forced to build the trains. Got it.
Pull the other leg! 🤣🤣🤣
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