For a long time, the Japanese embassy in Canberra had courted Andrew Robb as a pro-Japan politician. Then, Robb went for Landbridge's handsome money.
Reposted from Dr Ingrid M
a Liberal Party NT government gave a 99 year lease for the port of Darwin to foreign investors and then-Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said meh and the Liberal Party politician who was trade minister and member for Goldstein took a lobbying job with the lessee.

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