China wants to acquire Horn Island International Airport

By Jim OToole

Moves are underway for Torres Strait communities to join the Yidinji sovereign nation, established in Cairns nearly a decade ago, to break away from Australian government rule.

The Chinese government has been asked to bankroll the proposed Torres Strait nation which has already elected its political representatives.

Gudang and Kaurareg elders at a recent Cairns meeting said they wanted to break free from reliance on the Australian government and take charge of their own affairs.

This could be a noble sentiment to give Islanders a warm and fuzzy feeling about managing their own affairs, but if China pays the bills what does the Communist government of Bejiing want in return?

Front row: James Ji, Lin (Larry) Wang, China Consul Dr Ruan Zongze, Patricia Wall (nee Wymarra), Domanic Celestino, Sika Manu (also known as Milton Savage), Luisa O’Connor & Brendon Wymarra. Back row: Munggudah (also known as Thomas Savage), Koey Kula (also known as Seriat Young), Charles Mene & Iwallee (also known as Michael Solomon) taken at Thursday Island.Pic: Torres News

It seems China could already have negotiated a 99 year lease over Pajinka, Aboriginal freehold land at the Tip of Cape York, in a similar fashion to the Chinese lease of the Port of Darwin.

This deal would just be an entrée for unscrupulous Chinese businessmen backed by the communist government.

Recently the Chinese Consul visited the Torres Strait ostensibly to pave the way for massive Chinese investment in a new sea port on Hammond Island among other projects.

Consul Dr Ruan Zonzge’s visit was for “courtesy meetings with local authorities and communities but not for the specific projects as listed in your letter,” the Consulate claimed after Cairns News send a list of questions to the Consul.

Torres Strait elder Seriat Young told Torres News he wanted to see positive change in his communities for his children’s sake.

He said that was why they had appointed Ministerial roles and begun the process of establishing a sovereign government structure.

“We are going to do it all by ourselves, we will do this thing for our glory,” he said.

“We want the [Australian government] to look at us and see how [they] have oppressed us for a very long time in [our] own country.

Mr Young made no mention of the annual $40 billion Australian Government budget allocation for the national Aboriginal industry or the $2m recently handed out by government to the owners of Pajinka land at the Tip.

Michael Soloman is a Bamaga resident and one of the title holders of Pajinka whose family is from the Solomon Islands.

He said they had been meeting with Chinese investors to discuss the development of dilapidated infrastructure at significant sites of high tourism value. (Pajinka. Ed)

“They’re willing to help us move forward very fast, no games,” Mr Solomon said.

“We want to show the outcomes to our people and all the jobs and things we’ve been talking about for many years.”

Chairman of Kaurareg Native Title Aboriginal Corporation, Mr Eliza Wasaga said Milton Savage did not represent anyone in Kaurareg and was “running off on his own with Thomas Savage and Michael Solomon.”

“Milton and (Member for Cook) Cynthia Lui and Ned David Chairman of GBK (Gur A Baradharaw Kod Torres Strait Sea and Land Council Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Corporation) are working behind closed doors with the Chinese,” Mr Wasaga said.

“Thomas Savage (aka Munggudah, who is Milton Savage’s younger brother) has supposedly been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs to work directly with the Consul Dr. Ruan Zongze concerning any investment in the top end and outside of the Australian Government’s knowledge and control.

“I question why Thomas Savage is foreign minister when he is illiterate.

“Why is the Commonwealth funding the GBK when they are assisting Cynthia facilitating meetings with China? Three years ago Cynthia brought Chinese investors from Daru to Yam Island to set up a large scale fishing enterprise in the Torres St which was exposed and stopped by Bob Katter (Member for Kennedy).

“Now Cynthia is trying to do the same with the Chinese and establish a major port facility on Hammond Island and a large-scale fuel depot at Goodes Island on land and sea country that traditionally belongs to Kaurareg Aboriginal people without any consultation with Aboriginal people.

“Why is the Commonwealth continuing to fund GBK when it has failed auditor’s reports in the past?

“James Ji has visited the NPA (Northern Peninsula Area) to consult with Bernard Charlie about buying Pajinka. Mr Ji is an advisor to the Chinese Consul.

“China has expressed interest in buying Horn Island airport and have been dealing with Milton Savage, Michael Solomon, Domanic Lewin, Seriat Young and Thomas Savage.”

Meanwhile the Yidindji Government said 13 Indigenous nations from across the continent attended the Cairns event early in September to talk about sovereignty, statehood and self-determination into the future.

International law experts, former employees of international banks and technology experts were among the professionals invited to facilitate the discussions.

Yidinji Government Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Murrumu of Walubara (Cairns) said the Yidindji nation had been on their journey as a sovereign nation government for more than a decade.

While the federal government has yet to agree to a treaty with any indigenous groups the states have started their own treaty making processes.

Unsurprisingly Victoria led the way with its own treaty which passed in 2018.

Queensland’s Path to Treaty Act was passed in parliament in May 2023 supported by Labor and the LNP Opposition which should come back to haunt them in light of the embarrassing, massive no vote in the Voice referendum last year.

It is interesting the Liberal National Party has not made mention of the Queensland Treaty it originally supported during their election campaign now underway. This treaty will enable indigenous communities to create separate sovereign states.

The duplicitous Liberals claim to no longer support the Treaty enabling legislation they voted for in Queensland Parliament last year.

No federal government response has yet been made but Bob Katter said he had sent a number of questions to the Home Affairs Minister asking how China can get ownership of vital infrastructure in the Torres Strait.

“This Chinese investment has again become a matter of national security,” Mr Katter said.

 

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  1. “The Chinese had never heard of Taiwan until the 1600s, when it became Dutch.”

    rotfl … A lil humor goes a long way, right!?

  2. “Taiwan is a pivotal frontline of battle between Western hegemony and Eastern resistance”

  3. Born in QLD but gone for 40 years, upon returning I found a new species. Torres Islanders, and thought… wtf? Now thinking……Good, they can breakaway! And then GTF back to their own island.

  4. Sorry Crisscross but Taiwan is not China. It has no relevance to traditional Chinese history and was not part of Traditional China. In fact, the argument can me made that the true government of China is in Taiwan and the CIA backed Maoists illegally took control of China in the same fashion as the CIA Maidan coup in 2014 took the Ukrainian government. Go look up the history of Taiwan. The Chinese had never heard of Taiwan until the 1600s, when it became Dutch.

  5. Chnese culture

    A pot of wine among watermelon fields.So…The life of watermelons and grapes? ?Liziqi Channel

  6. The Jewish community of South Wales moved to New South Wales –

    Who really organised the “discovery” of Australia?

    South Wales moved to the New South Wales

    http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Wales.htm

    h ttps://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/images/map_wales.gif

    H. H. BEAMISH, in New York Speech, October 30, 1937 “The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon making inquiry, I found all the gold and diamond mines of South Africa were owned by Jews; that Rothschild controlled gold; Samuels controlled silver, Baum controlled other mining, and Moses controlled base metals. Anything these people touch they inevitably pollute.”

    W. HUGHES, Premier of Australia, Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1919 “The Montefiores have taken Australia for their own, and there is not a gold field or a sheep run from Tasmania to New South Wales that does not pay them a heavy tribute. They are the real owners of the antipodean continent. What is the good of our being a wealthy nation, if the wealth is all in the hands of German Jews?”

  7. crisscross767 – Re 10 planks… well said. People know very little about China here and their way of life except for the propaganda through msm. Its time they dug deeper and read some of Jingping’s speeches. He is being demonised in the same way as Mugabe, Saddam, Jong Un, Assad and others.

    Start thinking for yourselves. China is not a warmonger, they prefer economic trade and stability…

  8. We sell Australia to foreigners. We allow foreign owned banks to create interest bearing loans and forget that the Jewish Banks system contradicts Christian law.

    TYRANNY OF USURY

    PROTOCOL No. 20

    30. What also indeed is, in substance, a loan, especially a foreign loan? A loan is – an issue of government bills of exchange containing a percentage obligation commensurate to the sum of the loan capital. If the loan bears a charge of 5 per cent, then in twenty years the State vainly pays away in interest a sum equal to the loan borrowed, in forty years it is paying a double sum, in sixty – treble, and all the while the debt remains an unpaid debt.

    31. From this calculation it is obvious that with any form of taxation per head the State is baling out the last coppers of the poor taxpayers in order to settle accounts with wealth foreigners, from whom it has borrowed money instead of collecting these coppers for its own needs without the additional interest.

    32. So long as loans were internal the GOYIM only shuffled their money from the pockets of the poor to those of the rich, but when we bought up the necessary person in order to transfer loans into the external sphere, all the wealth of States flowed into our cash- boxes and all the GOYIM began to pay us the tribute of subjects.

    33. If the superficiality of GOY kings on their thrones in regard to State affairs and the venality of ministers or the want of understanding of financial matters on the part of other ruling persons have made their countries debtors to our treasuries to amounts quite impossible to pay it has not been accomplished without, on our part, heavy expenditure of trouble and money……………………”

  9. Tony Ryan: “Well, over the next decade, we will see this nation carved up into dozens of free states and you have nobody to blame but yourselves.”

    The Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth. Lucky we can turn a blind eye to it or things could get a little uncomfortable and interfere with the footy and spoil our day.

  10. The GREAT AUSSIE SELL OUT!

    Splendid idea. Create more fake land titles and then the new title holders sell the land off to Corporate interests in China, US, Britain, Blackrock, Vanguard or anybody else who can offer the new title holders a 4 wheel drive, a McMansion and a few $ in the bank.

    Who needs national interest when you can get bank interest!

  11. On the subject of so called Communist China –

    Chinese property owners pay no property taxes. China is not Communist in the Marxist sense, whereas Australia and the US are.

    The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto 1848 by Karl Heinrich Marx

    Just 20 years after Marx’ Manifesto was first published the US constitutionally established itself as Communist.

    How “Marxist” Has the United States Become?

    Although Marx advocated the use of any means, especially including violent revolution, to bring about socialist dictatorship, he suggested ten political goals for developed countries such as the United States. How far has the United States — traditionally the bastion of freedom, free markets, and private property — gone down the Marxist road to fulfill these socialist aims? You be the judge. The following are Marx’s ten planks from his Communist Manifesto.

    Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
    The courts have interpreted the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868) to give the government far more “eminent domain” power than was originally intended, Under the rubric of “eminent domain” and various zoning regulations, land use regulations by the Bureau of Land Management property taxes, and “environmental” excuses, private property rights have become very diluted and private property in land, vehicles, and other forms are seized almost every day in this country under the “forfeiture” provisions of the RICO statutes and the so-called War on Drugs..

    Read on –

    https://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html

  12. It looks like the Yidinji are even ahead of Communist Takeover of Australia in terms of Digital ID and CBDC rollout. The terrible poverty among their people is (of course) all the fault of Whitey.

    Everything we are fighting to prevent in this country, they are already arrived with the CCP. So who exactly is preserving culture and heritage? Cert of Vaxx ID, Digital ID, CBDC is the worst of the Communist social control grid. https://www.yidindji.org/

  13. The video is a very contemporary comment on ‘sign off’ deal colonisation which created an (in name only) independence and sovereignty. Zambia , for example, is the the poster boy for Communist colony with all water rights to the Upper Barotse sold to the ‘ethnical , stakeholder ‘capitalism’ of the CCP. In other words Communist expansionism and colonisation. [Much in the way the Murray Darling has been sold, I might add].

    It is worth noting that in 1972 the Republic of Rhodesia chartered a national , state bank (The Bank of Rhodesia) outside the Sterling Area and independent of the BIS cartel. The Rhodesian dollar was a blacklisted currency on all money markets but it was backed by the agricultural powerhouse that was the breadbasket of Africa – a roaring first world economy even with world-wide sanctions piled against it.

    Unfortunately this does invite comparison with the failed Marxist state and CCP colony that is Zimbabwe with its massive export of human tsunami – much of it landing in Australia with the attendant crime against Australians that is enabled by the Australian Communist Takeover.

    The Rhodesian dollar traded at parity with the British pound right throughout the Rhodesian War of Independence 1965-1979. To such an extent that to at least try to exercise some control over that currency , the Brits had to couple it with the Sterling in the Sterling Area. Good luck with that, the Rhodesians were still shorting the British pound in The City itself.

    “Paddling our own canoe” – PM Ian Douglas Smith . Communist Expansionists writing on the CN Messageboard should listen to it.
    SYND 1 10 1967 Ian Smith Speech. AP Archive Oct 1, 1967. (Given the year before Rhodesia went to Constitutional Referendum – a massive consultation process involving the Chiefs of several tribes and their communities as so many of them could not read or write).

  14. Whatever the Torres Strait is going to be if this deal with China goes through it will not be a sovereign country. They will be a colony.

  15. Has anyone heard of the Arms Length company which multinationals sell there mined minerals too which and when they transport to a local port. There they sell to their Arms Length company which in turn sells to the client. I wonder how much tax Australia misses out on.
    Ferguson Ex MP of Queensland would not divulge the well head price of oil which the Australian 8% royalty is calculated from. He claimed confidentiality between the government and the oil companies.

  16. Complete List Of Rothschild Owned And Controlled Banks
    October 3, 2020

    An increasingly number of people are waking up to the fact that 99% of the Earth’s population is controlled by an elite 1% – but did you know that there are theories about one family, the Rothschild, that they rule everything, even that elite 1%?

    Behind the scenes the Rothschild dynasty is unquestionably the most powerful bloodline on Earth and their estimated (not confirmed, inofficial source) wealth is around $500 trillion.
    Here is a complete list of all Rothschild owned and controlled banks. The U.S. entries might surprise you.

    ……..Australia: Reserve Bank of Australia…………..

    The world’s Megabanks

    There are two Megabanks that offer loans to all the countries around the planet, the World Bank and the IMF. The first one is jointly owned by the world’s top banking families, with the Rothschilds at the very top, while the second one is privately owned by the Rothschilds alone.

    These two Megabanks offer loans to “developing countries” and use their almost impossible-to-pay-back interests to get their hands on the real wealth: land and precious metals.

    But that’s not all! An important part of their plan is to also exploit a country’s natural resources (like petrol or gas) via their covertly-owned companies, refine them, and sell them back to the same country, making a huge profit.

    But in order for these companies to operate optimally, they need a solid infrastructure, which is usually lacking in the so called “developing countries.” So before the banksters even offer the almost impossible-to-pay-back loans, they make sure that most of the money will be invested in — you’ve guessed it — infrastructure.

    These “negotiations” are carried out by the so called “Economic Hitmen”, who succeed by handsomely rewarding (i.e. bribing) or threatening with death those who are in the position to sell away their country……………….

    https://jellyfish.news/complete-list-of-rothschild-owned-and-controlled-banks/

  17. Funny.

    The usual good thinkers accord the TIs the right to do as they wish; whilst the usual dogmatics oppose. Same ol’ same ol’.

    I am only commenting because this page-response was sent to me, presumably so I could opine.

    Australia is part of the West, which between 1815 and 1913, has become captive to Zionism. The outcome can be seen in the genocide of Gaza and the psychopathic Netanyahu threat of nuclear war. In Australia, it has brought the loss of our nation in 1975, deregulation, privatisation, removal or protective tariffs, the concomitant collapse of Australian industry through free trade, four million homeless, high unemployment and underemployment; widespread poverty, destructive inflation, loss of basic liberty, the scamdemic, and soon the digitisation of currencies and totalitarian control by fanatical psychopaths. This is good, right?

    But this is not the end of the story.

    In the North, for TIs (Thursday Islanders) and traditional Aborigines, it has meant misery , ghettoes, and genocide. I live here in NT Top End and I see it and I measure it, so if you want to disagree, go make a fool of yourself. I don’t care.

    Thursday Islanders, or some thereof, have moved towards establishing national sovereignty. This is called democracy. Paraphrased… self-determination. This horrifies Betty Mac and LindsaySymonds. “How dare they? The ingrates”.

    After 236 years of betrayal, they choose freedom. Wow, man. Never saw that coming. LOL.

    The West has crushed every move towards freedom and democracy, so what are my thoughts? Good luck to them. They have made the only move available to them. Every nation choosing freedom has been crushed by the Zionists except those who sought the protection of Russia and China. Take a long hard look at what the West did to Libya and Ghadaffi, and what it tried to do to the Sahil nations: Niger, Mali, and Burkino Faso. The US, UK, and France had secret ops troops there in seconds, only to be ignominiously thrown out by the Russians.
    I am guessing that the TIs have observed and drawn the obvious conclusions. Good luck to them.

    I warned Australians this would happen a decade ago, and it seems nobody listened. Right now, several other parts of Australia are contemplating the same move. They are sick of being told how much money they get when this actually pours into the pockets of doctors, nurses, teachers, academics, public servants, politicians, the construction industry, consultants, and most of all, into the bank accounts of urban ‘Aboriginal’ white-collar criminals.

    Over fifty years, I have monitered and record this and my fellow Australians simply preferred to whinge about “blackfellas stealing their tax dollars”. Well, over the next decade, we will see this nation carved up into dozens of free states and you have nobody to blame but yourselves.

    However, this little interlude reminds me, I was suspicious of all the Rhodesian condemnation of treacherous and ungrateful blacks, and the Zionist media description of Zimbabwe’s insane dictator, Mugabe. So I asked some independent observers to investigate for me. This produced an amazing conversation between Vlademir Putin and Robert Mugabe, who sounded more sane than the vast majority of humans I have listened to for some decades.

    This was followed by the testimonies of Zimbabweans who described their reactions during their student days, and then the more mature impressions of later years. “Mugabe prioritised education and Zimbabwe is now the most literate country in Africa”. US-generated sanctions created much hardship, which enabled Murdoch’s journalists to describe Zimbabwe as a failed state. Hmmm. Just as they said about Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and Russia.

    Fairly obviously, white Rhodesians are Zionists.

  18. All I can say is that if this collusion with China goes ahead, I hope the Federal government…as corrupt as they are…CUT OFF EVERY PENNY THEY GIVE TO THIS GROUP WHO WISH TO LISTEN TO ‘CHINESE WHISPERS!’
    I wish these Aborigines well, when they are living under a Chinese credit system.There are no free lunches in this world.
    China wants footholds in our country ,and they are getting them…at what cost to us?

  19. Freedom of truth telling –

    What the West Doesn’t Get about China’s Rise

  20. Well all I can say is, well done Torres Strait.. and yes, they will prosper – the same as all BRICS members are prospering. – while we go backwards with our apron strings tied to a dying empire.

    China is not our enemy but is being created as one by those that control us.

  21. China is bad? – Who is helping Africans to shake off the West and prosper?

    The West Sells Weapons, Sponsor Coups & Assassinate African Presidents For Natural Resources

  22. For a start Queensland and its so-called government are not legit, for the simple fact that the LD Upper House has been in recess, “sin die” for decades and decades. That makes the QLD Corporation illegitimate and Queensland technically a foreign country.
    So QLD should not be getting any federal funding and Queenslanders should not then, by rights, be paying federal taxes, and the Australian government, corporate or not, should not have stood by whilst that debacle happened.
    My take on the aboriginal corporations, which is a sellout by those who incorporated their native peoples, of their sovereignty:
    https://www.brighteon.com/77f5941f-8a1a-4c2f-9430-358e6de70577#comment-167445
    Point being that whoever incorporates or registers anything gives up full or part ownership of whatever they register or incorporate, and have to play by the rules of those they incorporated with.
    Remember the Kabi Kabi women refusing, vehemently, to incorporate?
    They were “in he know” on something about that, weren’t they?

  23. It’ll be the only Strait country in the world.
    Perhaps they think they can walk on water.

  24. Seriously, folks, let’s get a little clarity and common sense into the mix here.

    We don’t fix this by picking a fight with China. They’re not the enemy, they’re just doing what ANY decent country looking out for its own interests would and SHOULD be doing when economic opportunities present themselves.

    No, folks, we FIX this by dragging EVERY LAST ONE of these SOLD OUT TREASONOUS BABY-EATING ARSEHOLES infesting our FAKE FOREIGN-OWNED CORPORATE “government” out into the streets and STRINGING THEM UP TO LAMP POSTS.

    And THEN get down to the proper business of running Australia BY AUSTRALIANS FOR AUSTRALIANS. Instead of AnAL’s Kirribilli Bum-Bandit Regime and his cinematic sidekick Lurch running Australia BY A PACK OF SOLD-OUT SATANIC GLOBALIST PSYCHOPATHS for creepy Bill and Klaus Schwab.

  25. Lindesymonds said – “This deal is getting worse all the time”

    Pots and kettles come to mind. I don’t see our “deal” with the foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION getting any better with each passing year, do you?

    Seems to be something of a toss-up WHICH foreign dictatorship finally does us all in. We already KNOW that the foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION is HELL-BENT on DESTROYING whatever industrial economy we have left and EXTERMINATING ALL OF US for its genocidal Globalist owners.

    At least the Chinese have good cuisine, so you’ll get to enjoy your last meal, whereas AnAL’s Kirribilli Bum-Bandit Regime is going to force-feed you 3D-printed tumor nuggets and cockroach guts washed down with a schooner of maggot milk, just before your final COMPULSORY death-shot “vaccine” BIOWEAPON injection.

    Which “deal” do YOU prefer, a worthless retarded sold-out TREASONOUS baby-eating Globalist-wannabe Satanist like AnAL’s or the president of the world’s foremost economic powerhouse and multi-millenial mercantile empire Xi’s?

  26. The “Australian Government” a private Corporation, has no legal or lawful authority over the Torres Straight Islands, and neither does the “Queensland Government” another private Corporation “Australia” consists of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and no other external land mass. Another little item, the Commonwealth of Australia is still a Colony of Great Britain, the Head of State is King Charles III , he is also the Head of Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Read your Constitution, 1901. The criminal gangs that runs the “Australian Government” the Labor Party, LNP & Greens have all committed Treason.

  27. Signing up to be a colony of the CCP is never a good idea.
    “This deal is getting worse all the time”.
    Lando’s Deal

  28. The problem with populations which can not build a a successful economy and infrastructure is: who is going to bank roll them? This is not independence and sovereignty. This is advertising for a sugar daddy.

    The Zimbabwean Communists fought a war in order to cut a deal with China in order to be a colony of the CCP in the last century. How is the status of failed Marxist state working out for them? Slavery is again legal and canabalism is OK. The basis of the economy is humanitarian crisis. The major export is human tsunami.

  29. The author said – “… This deal would just be an entrée for unscrupulous Chinese businessmen backed by the communist government…”

    … as opposed to squeaky clean Australian billionaires and their Angelic accomplices, all backed by the uber-patriotic Constitutional Australian Government, government BY the People FOR the People where no child will EVER live in poverty. And Brumbies frolic unfettered in blissful freedom with the Unicorns across the pristine mountain heights.

    Sorry, folks, it just seems to me that a little perspective and context helps to paint a more pragmatic picture. Who exactly is the Bad Guy here? Would we have ANY of these problems if we had just bitten the bullet and REMOVED the foreign-owned COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CORPORATION and ALL its TREASONOUS GLOBALIST STOOGES from our country a decade or two ago?

    And the author said – “… Mr Young made no mention of the annual $40 billion Australian Government budget allocation for the national Aboriginal industry…”

    You mean the $40 BILLION allocated to keep self-annointed big-city pretend “indigenous” beauracrats and all their extended families and business associates living in the obscene luxury to which they’ve become accustomed?

    Sorry, but I fail to see what that has to do with it. If anything, that would be as sound an argument as ANY for DECOUPLING from the utterly sold-out, corrupt and rotten-to-the-core Australian CORPORATE framework of “governance”.

    Just saying.

  30. Ah hah, now I know why they have sold out the graziers of Cape York – they must have promised China that, as well.

  31. Typical that Victoria under danistan Andrews did this without anyone knowing I certainly didn’t give my consent .

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