Sam Dastyari's lasting damage to our policy on China

By Michael Pascoe
Updated September 9 2016 - 9:08am, first published 12:16am
Senator Sam Dastyari as he tried to justify his actions at a 25-minute grilling earlier this week. Photo: Wolter Peeters
Senator Sam Dastyari as he tried to justify his actions at a 25-minute grilling earlier this week. Photo: Wolter Peeters

The fallout from Sam Dastyari's entitlement and stupidity is considerably greater than his unimportant political career. The immediately obvious stuff is the embarrassment for Labor, the gift for the government, the impetus for a federal ICAC (if either major party had sufficient integrity) and the warning it gives casually venal politicians. Dastyari is to expenses payments what Bronwyn Bishop was to helicopter charters.

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