Bureaucrats Demand Former Australian PM Register as ‘Foreign Influencer’ for Attending Conservative Conference

Bureaucrats Demand Former Australian PM Register as ‘Foreign Influencer’ for Attending Conservative Conference
Former Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott arrives for the fourth day of the Conservative Party Conference 2016 at the ICC Birmingham on Oct. 5, 2016 in Birmingham, England. Carl Court/Getty Images
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Australia’s former conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described a demand that he register as a “foreign influencer” before he attended an international conference in Australia earlier this year as “absurd.”

Janet Albrechtsen reported in The Weekend Australian that the former prime minister refused the order to register as an agent of foreign influence under the nation’s foreign transparency laws.
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