Interesting to see Pauline Hanson attacking Chinese buying up property and flashing money around....
Sometimes she makes sense.....

@Waverley: "Pauline Hanson attacking Chinese buying up property and flashing money around, Sometimes she makes sense"

It's an accident if that happens! LOL

IMO she is 100% wrong for attacking the Chinese. It's not their fault and they are not part of a grand conspiracy to take over our nation.

If Pauline had any sense and holistic awareness then she would not be attacking the Chinese but attacking the long term illogical lunacy of our 'political classes' be they IPA/Syd Institute sycophants, Howard fawning luminaries, or Saints Hawke/Keating prayer meetings.

Logic: 1+1 = 1+1 - Think about that for a moment before proceeding.

Can an Australian buy a farm, a house, investment rental property in Thailand, China etc in their own right? No.

Can an Australian company buy any Company they want in China etc? No.

Cultural values of Australia is based upon notions of "a fair go" and anti-class "egalitarianism".

Were Australia's political, finance and corporate 'class' in harmony with core Australian Values, then the solution to Pauline's hand-waving and blaming the wrong people would be simple and obvious to a new born!

But our Politicians are duplicitous, disingenuous. Repeatedly fail to tell Australians the 'truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.' (hat tip)

Like AGW/CC anti-scientific denialists - they revert to cherry-picking fallacies, half-truths, and passing on provable lies.

Why? Because they can get away with it, because their 'Class' - the same as Media power-broker's 'Class'.

The solution:

China, can Australians by land, farms, property, businesses in China?

China Govt A: No.

OK then, until that changes, no Chinese citizen or company can do the same in Australia. Our Laws will be a mirror reflection of your Laws.

China Govt A: Oh, OK. That makes sense and is reasonable. We respect that. Thanks for simplifying your rules so anyone can now understand them. Happy year of the Sheep.

Problem solved.

But only after Politicians are elected who use logic and common sense and who are not incompetent. Solving that is the job of The People, individually and collectively and no one else, ie YOU.
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Dear Pogo

Thankyou for your 4 posts of 13-14 September which I understand constitute your Little Red Book.*

I must admit I didn't understand your 14th point! What were you trying to say man, woman or hermaphrodite?

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung

plantagenet, Thursday, 15 September 2016 5:30:45 PM

"Thankyou for your 4 posts of 13-14 September which I understand constitute your Little Red Book.*
I must admit I didn't understand your 14th point! What were you trying to say man, woman or hermaphrodite?"

I confess I do not understand what you are implying or saying. Are you sure it's I that you need to address? I have re-read the posts of mine that you refer to and can find no numbered points, nor could I find some place where a necessary choice between "man, woman or hermaphrodite" is even remotely relevant.

I have nothing that could be seen as a Little Red Book. My posts addressed isses raised by contributors so they contained my opinion on those issues. I place great value upon the wisdom of intelligent people from the past whose words echo down the halls of time and which have underpinned much of what is noble and admirable in our societies, which, through science, have visited incalculable benefits upon citizens and our environment. I quote from the opinions of the past when I consider them helpful to a better understanding, are relevant and/or support my argument.

Very, Very few have ever been left in a quandary as to what I write or say. I cannot remember the last time I "tried" to say something and left doubt as to my meaning. I have encountered one or two occasions when my interlocutors did lack sufficient intellectual aparatus to understand what I wrote, but they suffered the pathology of religious faith and didn't matter anyway. [sniff!]

Dear Colonel Pogi

Hmmm! Are you sure?

Was not Mao's crowning Long March "achievement" but a myth?

see "Long March to mythology" http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HJ24Ad01.htm

Pete

An old tale told in Germany and Holland:

"Anyone who isn't a communist at 20 has no heart.

Anyone who is a communist at 25 has no brain"