After he admitted to asking a company with links to the Chinese government to pay his debt for overspending on travel allowances, Sam Dastyari has bowed to the pressure and resigned from the Labor frontbench and leader of Opposition business in the Senate.
E $1670 le aofa'i na 'ova ai le faaoga a Sam Dastyari mai le aofa'i faatagaina mo ana faigamalaga i le tausaga talu ai.
Sa tatau ona ia toe totogia lana aitalafu, ae na ia valaau i se Kamupani Saina e igoa o le Top Education Institute, ma e iai ona sootaga ma le faigamalo i Saina, latou te totogia lana aitalafu.
O le faafitauli i le foa'i lenei, ona e le o se fo'ai na faia mo le vaega faaupufai a le Labor, ae na faia sa'o e fesoasoani ai i le sui o Sam Dastyari.
O le tulaga lea na faamamafa e le loia sili George Brandis i se talanoaga ma le ABC ma ia finau ai ua tatau i le taitai o le ituagai ona faate'a Dastyari....
BRANDIS
"The issue is Senator Dastyari. And I think it confuses the issue to speak of this payment as a donation to Senator Dastyari. It wasn't a donation. It was a gift. It was the payment of money into his bank account to settle a personal debt, by a company with very close links to the Chinese state. And what we saw was Senator Dastyari take this money, no different (than) if someone had given him a bundle of cash and he put it in his pocket."
