Mr Opinion>> These are the sorts of questions that interest me as a socio-cultural analyst.<<

Socio-cultural analyst? Do you not mean expounder of the bleeding obvious? You add dimensions with all the intuit required of a tabloid headline Mr O.

Mr Opinion>>The warning signs are there and the problem is that you lot cannot read the writing on the wall.<<

To be fair Mr O that is a literacy issue, you would be best taking it up with the board of studies.........lolololol.

Labor PM Hawke and other Labor figures before and aften him pursued the goal of 'Asianising' Australia. That extended far beyond improving the trade and diplomatic links with China and SEAsia.

They believed that Australia was close to and part of Asia. To any navigator, that is ludicrous in the extreme and is only the appearance of close promixity from the Mercator projection (a cylindrical map projection presented by Gerardus Mercator in 1569).

You'd think that Hawke and other politicians (both sides!) who expend so much taxpayer money on international travel would have wondered by the travelling time for some destinations is so far longer than they might expect from the flight map in first class. Maybe a very,very patient RAAF (acting)Stewardess could explain some time.

I seem to remember Hawke declaring that in the future Australians would be of brown, swarthy appearance and of short stature. More or less like Hawke himself one supposes. Hawke has been 'embracing' China for years. Just lucky he has that Golden Handshake First Class travel to conduct his business, eh what?

Mr Opinion,

Of course, our first action would be to intern all Chinese living in Australia to put them out of action. That's normal procedure.

Ooohhh ttbn, are there any 'reds' under your bed?
Scary aren't they, those Chinese...

I think all of you should read "the Australaise".
An anthem is about unity and National Pride, you all seem to have lost yours.

Dear Nemesis,

<<An anthem is about unity and National Pride, you all seem to have lost yours.>>

I do hope so, Sir.