Paul1405,
In comparison to bureaucrat hangers-on the racial issue is a minor one. Race is no impediment to economic success, bureaucrats are.

A DISGRACE! Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon along with NZ Greens MP Jan Logie, have been ordered out of Sri Lanka by that countries repressive regime. Lee and Jan were in Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission concerning human rights violations by the Sri Lankan government. The Greens have once again called on Abbott not to attend the CHOGM meeting, Abbotts attendance gives legitimacy to a most repressive regime.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/19765330/greens-senator-lee-rhiannon-ordered-out-of-sri-lanka-ahead-of-chogm-meeting/

<< [Oz] Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon ...[& NZ Green] MP Jan Logie, have been ordered out of Sri Lanka ...[THEY] were in Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission concerning human rights violations by the Sri Lankan government>>

Any group which included --those fish-paper wrapper /tabloid-press politicians --the Greens must be highly suspect.

The Greens would NOT know a "fact" if they fell over one.They were there just to stir.

[Oz] Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon ...[& NZ Green] MP Jan Logie
Paul1405,
Why don't these two advocate that we pay the poor workers there properly for the products our people here pay next to nothing for ? It's a bit hypocritical to bleat discrimination when we exploit their cheap labour. Just like our perverts going over to Asia to exploit their children
If they want to help these people we need to stop exploiting them & focus on them helping themselves

Indi, well said and I totally and utterly agree with you. It is The Greens who in this country often speak out for the oppressed in the third world. Go to the Kmart web site, tell them what you think of their policy of cheap imports from Bangladesh and how they profit from exploration, I have done that. The likes of Abbott and Shorten by their silence give approval to this vile practice of exploration in the poorest of countries.
"The Greens would NOT know a "fact" if they fell over one.They were there just to stir" Words of support for a ruthless regime.

Paul,

<<The likes of Abbott and Shorten by their silence give approval to this vile practice of exploration in the poorest of countries.>>

ROFL

Why is it vile?

Who knows what you might find if you did a bit of EXPLORATION ...iron ore, gold, oil?

Heck, if they found sufficient quantities of the aforementioned they wouldn't be poor countries anymore.

I'm all for the "exploration" of poor countries!