The Monday night dinner included former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn, and ex-Future Fund chair David Murray.
Felix Lee, son of casino high-roller Phillip Dong Fang Lee—who lost $57 million gambling and faces a $272 million tax debt—reportedly secured Albanese’s attendance with the donation pledge.
Critics highlight contrasts to heavy coverage of Gina Rinehart’s $1.5 million plane gift to Pauline Hanson, while questioning Labor’s $67.6 million Journalism Assistance Fund for subsidizing outlets like Nine and Seven.
No response has come from Albanese’s office or Labor.
Labor and their billionaire mates.
Gina RInehart donates a light single-prop plane to One Nation and ABC repeat the story endlessly.
Albanese pockets a $1 million cash donation from a Chinese high roller with links to the Chinese Communist Party – in a deal brokered by dodgy Dan Andrews – and you can bet the ABC won’t mention a word of it.
𝐈𝐟 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐲. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬.
“Felix Lee had promised to donate about $1 million to the Labor Party, according to a source familiar with the premise of the event. It secured the prime minister’s attendance at the Point Piper mansion, which, in turn, attracted the other senior businessmen to join. Another source said there were around eight people at the harbourside dinner.
The structure of the rumoured donation was interesting, too. The source said it could either be a direct $1 million donation to Labor’s party political coffers, or come as a smaller amount from Felix and then financial commitments from others connected to him.
Any future donation may well be clean as a whistle. But how about the look? The prime minister caught taking time from his busy schedule to attend one of the country’s most expensive homes, for a dinner with the promise of a political donation.”