Yep, they can play the long game seeing as they don't have to worry about elections. They make inroads on a few key people, and they can parlay that into a much larger influence. Maybe they have something on him? Caught with a live boy or dead girl? Or perhaps they're just greasing his palms more than he can resist, or maybe a bit of both.

I don't think he's interested in Australia. What's he hiding? Why all the secrecy?

United Front Work Dept's operations in Aus go back several decades. It has been chronically overlooked as a malevolent force despite its widespread infiltration of Australian society - which i guess explains why it's chronically overlooked.

Xi Jinping doesn't underestimate its value though - he calls it: an important magic weapon for realising the China Dream of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation.

In fact it's classic Sun Tzu warfare - know your enemy as well as you know yourself - the ideal result being to bring your enemy to its knees without needing to fire a shot. With operatives embedded in every facet of Australian society, the CCP knows/influences Australia to a frightening degree. Meanwhile the Aussie experts know jackshit about China - they literally installed Chinese spyware in every government office - the excuse was 'well, it was way cheaper - & we didn't know Chinese companies are bound by Chinese law to allow the government access to all their data!'

Horrifyingly, that defense (either corrupt or stupid) is accepted, time after time. No-one ever gets investigated, much less fired or imprisoned.

In Daniel Andrews's case, the UFWD ties run deep. (note: i was about to delve into this a couple of years ago but got waylaid by some bigger Covid Conspirator fish - still want to get back to it one day, but here's the basic info).

The Australian: A staffer in Daniel Andrews’s office has been linked to China’s United Front organisation, which co-ordinates Beijing’s overseas influence operations, amid growing criticism of the Victoria Premier’s decision to sign up to Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Mr Andrews’s adviser Marty Mei was named a “special consultant” to the Shenzhen Association of Australia, which is part of a network of organisations in Australia that is guided by the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department.

The association was opened in November 2016 by a senior Communist Party official, Ma Yongzhi, who is vice-minister of the United Front Work Department of Shenzhen.

Mr Mei, a former multicultural adviser and now media adviser to the Premier, has travelled several times with Mr Andrews to China and claimed at last year’s World Chinese Economic Summit in Malaysia to have “played a key role in the development of Victoria’s New China Strategy”.

So, a top UFWD operative inside the Premier's office - literally advising him on China relations!

But still, nobody cares. That's the real beauty of the UFWD's work. It all happens quietly, just below the surface (not too far below) as it spreads its insidious influence. The more influence it spreads, the less people there are to raise objections against it.

One person who has long raised the alarm is Prof Clive Hamilton - a guy i had some communication with re Pangolin Paper author Ian Lipkin's involvement with the CCP.

Hamilton: It is extremely revealing that a senior Communist Party official arrived in Melbourne to oversee the inauguration of this United Front group

There was no attempt to conceal the direct link between the Shenzhen Association of Australia and the party’s United Front network. With the signing of the Belt and Road MOU, Victoria has succumbed to Beijing’s divide and rule tactics.

So hiding in plain-sight. Confident it has enough power/influence to combat any efforts to expose its operatives. Which it does have. Evidenced by our Premier going off to China on an opaque mission to further entangle Victoria/Australia with the CCP.

In fact, the UFWD's links to the Victorian Labor party pre-date even Andrews. Ex-premiers are on this or that China-Victoria Friendship societies & have long functioned as CCP-cheerleaders. John Brumby, for example, was actually Director of Huawei in Australia, whilst also serving as President of Australia – China Business Council!

As such, it has transcended individuals to established Org levels. As we discovered with your investigation of the GODS, once a thought-system gets its tendrils into a powerful Org, it's almost impossible to get it out.