The first person charged with Australia’s new foreign interference laws, 65-year-old community leader Duong Di Sanh, has been a strong campaigner and advocate for pro-Beijing policy for the last two decades.
Duong, also known as Sunny Duong, is a leader of several community organisations in Melbourne, including the Oceania Federation of Chinese Organisations from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Inc., and the Museum of Chinese Australian History Melbourne.