____XIN BẤM VÀO LINK TRÊN ĐÂY SẼ XEM ĐƯỢC MỤ DÂN BIỂU ÚC GỐC VIỆT CỘM RỘNG HỌNG MÚA MỒM ỦNG HỘ TÊN ĐIÊN PAUL KEATING CỰU THỦ TƯỚNG ÚC ĐANG BỊ THIÊN HẠ CHỬI RỦA TẬN TÌNH - MỤ LÊ ĐẠI NẦY LIẾM, VÁI KEATING KIỂU VIỆT CỘNG - MỤ CHO RẰNG MUA TÀU NGẦM TỐN 368 TỶ THAY VÌ ĐỂ XÂY NHÀ VÀ MUA TÀU NGẦM LÀM TỔN HẠI RELATIONSHIP VỚI TRUNG CỘNG AS WELL - ĐÚNG LÀ GÓC NHÌN TỪ CẦU TIÊU BA ĐÌNH-*Con nhỏ Việt Cộm nầy quên luôn rồi "TẠI SAO MẸ CON NÓ PHẢI CHẠY KHỎI XỨ VC NĂM NÀO Chưa lâu lắm đâu"./-Mt68_______________
An Independent MP has thrown her support behind a former prime minister facing backlash over his controversial comments about the AUKUS submarine deal.Ex-Labor leader Paul Keating launched a tirade against the Albanese government at the National Press Club on Wednesday after the announcement Australia would secure eight nuclear powered submarines from the early 2030s amid tensions in the Indo Pacific.The 79-year-old, a fierce critic of the trilateral partnership, described the pact with the United Kingdom and United States as the worst international decision by an Australian Labor government since Billy Hughes' bid to introduce conscription in World War I."Look, I'd say for the cost, $360 billion, we're going to get eight submarines. It must be the worst deal in all history," Mr Keating said."If we were buying Collins class replacements, we'd get at least 40 to 50 of those submarines... for the same price."
Independent MP Dai Le has joined former prime minister Paul Keating in ridiculing Labor's decision to spend $368 billion on nuclear submarines. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage
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Dai Le, the Independent MP for Fowler in Sydney, said she "wholeheartedly" agreed the $368 billion price tag was too much and could instead be spent to address issues in the country.
"This is costing us not just in financial but it's costing us in relationship as well," she told the Today show on Thursday morning.
"So I just don't get that at this point in time of the cost of living crisis, as we've just spoke about the electricity prices, and families are struggling, we are spending $368 billion.
"I just don't get it."
The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) revealed on Wednesday its draft default market offer decision for the upcoming 2023/2024 financial year, which showed a grim outlook for families in three states already struggling with cost of living pressures.
It predicted the price for residential electricity would increase between 19.5 per cent to 23.7 per cent, depending on which state a family is in and the energy provider, while business owners can expect rises from 14.7 per cent to 25.4 per cent.
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CÂU CHUYỆN VƯỢT BIÊN CỦA DÂN BIỂU ÚC DAI LÊ CHÍNH NGƯỜI VIỆT TỴ NẠN VẪN CHƯA HIỂU THẾ NÀO? RA ĐI BẰNG TÀU QUA PHI LUẬT TÂN NĂM 1975- 3 NĂM SAU LẠI VƯỢT BIỂN QUA TRẠI TỴ NẠN HONG KONG CÙNG 36 NGƯỜI-NĂM 1979 ĐỊNH CƯ Ở ÚC- Hình như chưa ai nghe có chuyện TỪ PHI LUẬT TÂN vượt biển qua HONG KONG để làm gì? Sao không chờ tại Phi để đi định cư các nước khác??? ./-Mt68
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‘Even Josh Frydenberg called Monique Ryan’: Dai Le on the call that never came.
Story by Benjamin Law•Yesterday 3:30 pm
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Dai Le. The politician and businesswoman, 54, was 11 years old when she came to Australia as a refugee. Earlier this year, she was elected independent MP for Fowler, a Sydney seat that had been held by Labor since 1984.
In 1975, as a seven-year-old, you fled Vietnam by boat with your mum and two younger sisters.
What do you remember? The whole journey. Running out of the house because we were told, “You gotta run”; scrambling; being pushed by – it felt like thousands, but I’m sure it was a few hundred – people towards this boat. People screaming and crying. We were taken to the Philippines. We ended up staying there for a couple of years. Then, in the middle of the night, about 36 people left on a smaller boat for god knows where.
Were you scared? I thought, “There’s no way we’re going to survive this.” I couldn’t swim and thought we were going to die.
You survived, obviously, but what legacy does that type of near-death experience have? It taught me to be very grateful. The next [life or death situation] for me was being diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2014.
What was the hardest part of that? Telling my then 11-year-old son.
How do you begin to have that conversation? ”Mum has cancer.” I just had to say it. I remember him going … [sharp intake of breath] … and I said, “I’m gonna be fine; I’m going to survive this.” In my head, I’m going, “You better survive this!” But he was very mature. I’m now seven years in remission.
MONEY
After three years in the Philippines, you went to another refugee camp in Hong Kong before coming to Australia at the age of 11. What was money like? Once we got here, we had nothing. Eventually, the Catholic Church found a place for us to live at Fairy Meadow [near Wollongong]. My mother got a job as a house-cleaner and I’d help her on weekends.
As an adult, you worked as a journalist for a local newspaper in Sydney’s south-west. By accident.
How? I was having a coffee with a local journalist my sister knew. He goes, “What are you doing at the moment? The Liverpool Champion is looking for an ethnic cadet journalist.” I said, “What do you mean by ‘ethnic’?” He goes, “You’re an ethnic.” So I put in an application. I worked there for three-and-a-half years before I pushed my way into the ABC.
Then you later switched to politics. By accident.
Again? How do you accidentally fall into politics? It was 2008 and I was shopping with my husband. People were complaining about a car park and the member for Cabramatta had resigned because of her health. As we’re driving back, my husband goes, “Why don’t you do something about that car park – for the community?” That’s how it started, over a car park.
How much do you get paid as a federal MP now? Parliamentarians get paid about $200,000. [The base salary for a federal MP or senator in 2022 is $217,060.]
Do you think it’s commensurate with the work you do? You are constantly in meetings. Every night this week, I’ve got events. It’s seven days a week. You’re asked to make decisions on important things and weigh up what’s in the best interests of your community while taking into consideration the country, too. From my perspective, it is commensurate.
What do you think Australia spends too little on? Health and education.
What do you personally like spending money on? Oh, my god – food!
POLITICS
You won Fowler against Labor’s Kristina Keneally. The ALP had a 14 per cent margin and you achieved a 16 per cent swing. Were you surprised that you won? Yes, of course. You want to win, but there’s always a little voice saying “it’s a big margin”.
When Kristina Keneally was announced as the ALP candidate, she was touted by Anthony Albanese as “a migrant success story”. What was your reaction? Disbelief. For me, a migrant is somebody whose second language is English. To have [Keneally] described as a migrant …
It’s technically correct, though. Technically correct. But she’s an American who married an Australian and decided to migrate here.
It’s customary for challengers to share a phone call once the results are announced. What was your conversation with Keneally like? She didn’t call. I didn’t make much of it because I didn’t know the process. But somebody messaged me and said, “Even Josh Frydenberg – the treasurer – called Monique Ryan.”
You used to be a member of the Liberal Party. In 2016, it suspended your membership for running on an independent ticket for mayor against the party’s endorsed candidate. Are Liberals in federal parliament warm towards you or sceptical? It’s only a few months in. I haven’t seen any tension.
For your maiden speech, you wore a traditional Vietnamese áo dài made from the Australian flag. What was the story behind it? I said to this woman in Fairfield, who I often go to for traditional dress, “I want to wear the Australian flag.” She goes, “Oh, I’ve [already] made this, but no one has worn it yet!” She showed it to me, and I said, “Oh, my god, fantastic!” So I got to combine both Australian and Vietnamese cultures. I wanted to celebrate.
Le arrived in Australia in 1979 as a refugee of the Vietnam War after fleeing Saigon in April 1975 and spending four years with her family in refugee camps in the Philippines and Hong Kong. She became an ABC journalist and politician, and was named as one of the 100 most influential Australian women in 2014.
![Dai Le: “People in the community were complaining about a car park. That’s how [my political career] started, over a car park.”](https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AA14x4CN.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=323&y=93&s=143&d=143 "Dai Le: “People in the community were complaining about a car park. That’s how [my political career] started, over a car park.”")
