These classes might be free to Treasury, but they are paid for by exposing children to a foreign government's propaganda machine.
~ David Shoebridge
Get Them Young and Get Them Often: NSW public schools are being paid at least $10,000 a year by a Chinese government body to offer its Chinese language and culture courses, and some schools make it compulsory to attend.
Despite concerns over the appropriateness of outsourcing public school lesson time to a foreign government body, the state government expanded the program - known as Confucius Classrooms - to a further six schools in late 2015. Behind confucius classrooms the Chinese government agency teaching NSW school students how to be good Chinese communists
Australian media a China stooge MacroBusiness
How an industry helps Chinese students cheat their way into and through U.S. colleges Reuters. To these admirably pragmatic “students,” credentials really are nothing other than asignalling mechanism…
Last Year the former Governor General of NSW, Marie Bashir, exposed the arrogance of the Communist apparatchiks' monoculture ...
Chinese interests play increasing role in Australian political donations
Yesterday at the Melbourne Jewish Writers Festival, I (Lisa -the light on the- Hill) asked Nir Baram the wrong question about his stunning novel Good People. I asked him if he meant us to be wary of contemporary commercial entities who are complicit in marketing government messages, but I should have asked him, did he mean for us to be wary of ourselves.
The South China Morning Post reports that "Uniformed officers in China bash man on the street for failing to produce his ID."