From the time of the Whitlam Government till today, some senior Labor politicians and party officials have been prepared to conduct business dealings with some of the most unsavoury, not to say murderous, regimes in the world. Joseph Poprzeczny reports.Labor’s besieged Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon and his two secret China trips, bankrolled by Madame Helen Liu, fit snuggly into a seldom-noted Labor tradition that’s best described as cosying up to authoritarian regimes.Members of three o…
