20 Facts About Gladys Liu

Gladys Liu previously represented the Division of Chisholm in Victoria for the Liberal Party from her election in 2019 until her her defeat in 2022.

Between 2003 and 2015, Gladys Liu was a member of the Guangdong provincial chapter of the China Overseas Exchange Association, a bureau within the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party responsible for influencing overseas and returning Chinese residents.

Gladys Liu studied at Belilios Public School, and attended Hong Kong Polytechnic.

In 1985, Gladys Liu emigrated to Australia to study at La Trobe University.

Gladys Liu studied Speech Pathology and is completely deaf in her left ear.

Gladys Liu was one of three MPs in the 46th Parliament of Australia who graduated high school outside of Australia, the others being Kristina Keneally and Mehreen Faruqi.

Gladys Liu ran as a Liberal Party candidate for the South Eastern Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2010 Victorian state election and for the Northern Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2014 Victorian state election.

In 2024 Gladys Liu was elected as a member of Melbourne City Council.

Gladys Liu is a member of the National Right faction of the Liberal Party, which is considered to be the party's conservative faction.

Gladys Liu told The Australian she firmly endorsed the protest movement, and its aims.

In May 2020, Gladys Liu penned an op-ed for The Age in which she supported the Coalition Government's call for an independent inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In November 2020, Gladys Liu joined with several other Australian MPs in condemning the disqualification by China of four members of the Hong Kong Legislative Council.

Gladys Liu told The Sydney Morning Herald, she was saddened by the move as it meant "the democracy that I enjoyed is disappearing".

In July 2022, Gladys Liu ran for Liberal Party preselection for a spot on party's ticket for the North Eastern Metropolitan Region in the Victorian Legislative Council, but was unsuccessful.

Gladys Liu was reported to have been a member of two other front organisations from 2003 to 2015 that were both later rolled into the United Front Work Department.

Gladys Liu responded that she could not recall if she had been a member of the department over the 12-year period.

Gladys Liu reported that she "had no recollection" of meeting Zhao.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has expressed his support for Gladys Liu and stated that criticism of the MP was racially motivated.

At the 2017 Victorian Liberal Party conference, the party's Eastern Multicultural Branch, of which Gladys Liu was president, proposed a motion that would make foreign investment in agribusiness and agricultural land permissible without prior approval of the Foreign Investment Review Board.

In December 2019, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Gladys Liu assisted in securing meetings with federal politicians for the Australian subsidiary of Brighsun, a Chinese-controlled energy group.