Raja Albo guzzles Indian baksheesh

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It was bad enough that Raja Albo aborted wage growth and dropped a rent bomb via the mass immigration of Indian scabs.

Now he has been busted stuffing his face with curry at the table of his fellow Kshatriyas as he sells your border for ALP baksheesh.

Anthony Albanese was the star ­attraction at a private dinner in a Toorak mansion at which the Labor Prime Minister sat next to a wealthy foreign student kingpin whose international college has been deregistered after federal investigators uncovered “significant noncompliance”.

The Australian can reveal multi-millionaire international college operator Rupinder Brar was one of about a dozen Indian-Australian business figures who dined with Mr Albanese at the VIP event on November 12 last year.

The Prime Minister’s principal private secretary, David Epstein, and former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews also attended the intimate event, which one of the guests described as “four hours of exquisite cuisine and hospitality”.

I’m sure it was. But infinitesimally inexpensive in context.

After all, Raja Albo flew to India in early 2023 to sign a fistful of shockingly bad labour mobility agreements with Narendra Modi.

Raja Albo equalised all Indian qualifications with their Aussie equivalents. Even though everybody knows that most of the Indian education system is an immense scam.

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You might recall that the main agreement was so bad that it was obviously drafted by some junior bureaucrat using a ring binder as practical joke:

In other words, Raja Albo succeeded in inviting India’s scam colleges to set up in Australia to print visas:

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Is Raja Albo repentant, as he stuffs his face with Raja scam college tycoons?

Perhaps most interesting, where are these leaks coming from? Is the ALP also jack of Raja Albo?

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Multiple Labor and Indian community figures have told The Australian that the event was more than likely an ALP fund raising event that could have raised tens of thousands of dollars in donations.

“Why else would the Prime Minister go to such a dinner,” one Labor figure said.

Why indeed. And what will be the payoff for the Rajas in the next cycle?

Then again, the alternative is already on his knees kissing the Raja ring.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.