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Dear onthebeach,

As a sociologist, it is my opinion that Bob Hawke is more than a Fabian. I think he is, and has always been, a dyed-in-the-wool communist. I think he sees the establishment of Chinese economic and cultural hegemony in Australia as a first stage to creating his dream of having a communist Australia. And all he had to do to set things in that direction was to appeal to the nation's greed during the 1980s. He offered Australians a choice between continued Anglo-Australian nation-building or economic rationalism and they took the bait, ending 200 years of British-cum-Australian culture and political unity,

Another politician whom I think is deliberately selling Australia out to the Chinese for his own personal reasons is NT Chief Minister Adam Giles. I think Giles, as an aboriginal descendant, is bitter that Australian aboriginal society has been decimated and dispossessed of their lands by White Australia. I think his sale of Port Darwin to Chinese interests was a way of saying that he would rather see his ancestors' lands in the hands of the Chinese that in the hands of White Australia.

Mr Opinion, WTF do you think "communist" means?

I don't normally have any trouble thinking of things, but I can't think of any credible definition of "communist" that would include Bob Hawke.

Aidan

Who are you to ask such questions?

Mr Opinion,

I am a participant in this discussion. Do you have a problem with that?

Why do you ask, anyway? It isn't as if I asked who you were to define "communist". I merely asked what your definition was.

Dear Mr Opinion,

For your information Mr Abbott told a 450-strong
breakfast crowd at the Westin Hotel in Sydney,

"My maternal grandfather was a lifelong unionist."

"My father reckons that, as a child in the North of
England during the Depression, he went to a kind of
communist Sunday School where they sang the Red Flag
instead of hymns. These were the disadvantages I have
had to overcome."