The friendship with the Chinese has led to the resignation of Defense Minister of Australia.

Australian Defense Minister Joel Fittsgibbon (Joel Fitzgibbon) has resigned, reports BBC News. The reason for his departure from office, presumably, have a few scandals that erupted around him in recent times.
These include the recent investigation conducted by officers of the Ministry of Defense of Australia, which prevented the leakage of information about the private life of Fittsgibbona. More investigation became known local press, and then spilled into the global media.
The Ministry considered that the friendship with the heads of departments who lives in Sydney with the entrepreneurs of Chinese origin Liu Helen (Helen Liu) could damage the national security of Australia. Thus, according to the Defense Ministry, during his visits to the country's capital Canberra Fittsgibbon remained in the apartment, which rented from Liu. In addition, he allegedly took from her expensive gifts, among them BBC News identifies two trips to China. However, none of the presentation, Liu has not been declared the Minister of Defense.
Fittsgibbona representative stated that the Minister took a woman to the small gifts that are not needed in the declaration. Also during the investigation, officials of the Ministry inspected the personal computer Fittsgibbona and found it bank details of his companion. He said that is familiar with Liu since 1992 and believes entrepreneurs and their families by their close friends.
Speaking to the official statement of resignation, Fittsgibbon apologized for the conflict between the Government of Australia and insurance company, headed by his brother. The resignation of Minister of Defense was the first dismissal of a Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Kevin Ruddy in November 2007.
At a press conference in Canberra Ruddy said that the new head of the Ministry of Defense of Australia to be appointed as soon as possible. Commenting on the work Fittsgibbona in office, Prime said that the head of the Ministry of Defense performed his duties first class.