'Is Sam Dastyari fit to be in Parliament?': Pressure builds on MP over China money

By Fergus Hunter, Tom McIlroy
Updated September 1 2016 - 2:08am, first published 1:15am
Senator Sam Dastyari (left) and Bill Shorten. Photo: Penny Stephens
Senator Sam Dastyari (left) and Bill Shorten. Photo: Penny Stephens
Senator Cory Bernardi speaks in reply to Senator Dastyari's statement to the Senate on Wednesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Senator Cory Bernardi speaks in reply to Senator Dastyari's statement to the Senate on Wednesday. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

An Indigenous education charity has returned a donation from prominent Labor senator Sam Dastyari, following revelations he asked a communist-linked Australian-Chinese donor to foot an expenses bill when he exceeded parliamentary travel entitlements.

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