Of course we need alliances with other countries. Pretty obvious.

But I doubt that Labor will be good enough to address the CCP question.

They are more prone to see the best in everyone, like many of their supporters.

Vote Liberal on this one.

thinkabit,

Obviously you're not from around these parts.

Pop on down to Sydney (or up when you get released from Melbourne) and have a look for yourself.

Walk around the streets and travel on public transport and visit the large metropolitan malls and you won't be able to tell if you are in Sydney or Hong Kong or Singapore.

Chinese text is plastered all over Sydney. In fact a lot of billboards especially real estate ads are exclusively in Chinese because they represent the biggest real estate market in Sydney.

Looking at the picture I think it was taken in the south CBD of Sydney but it pretty much typical of most of inner Sydney.

Like I said, come and see for yourself if you don't believe me. First time visitors usually always ask the same thing: "Where are all the Australians? What are all these Chinese doing here?"

Dear Jimmy,

«its not 1941»

No, it's more like 1938 now.

Do we need to wait until the number of Uighurs slaughtered rises to 6 million?

Do we need to wait until Hong Kong too turns into a concentration camp?

Do we need to wait until the "Gypsies" of Tibet are burned in open trenches?

Do we need to wait until Taiwan is bombarded into dust?

Do we need to wait until Japan is invaded?

Or shall we remain silent until we starve to death here in Australia because no fuel can arrive to transport food from the fields to our supermarkets?

Yuyutsu, we can have little direct influence on internal Chinese politics. The US war with Japan was preceded by the US starving Japan of fuel. What we can and are doing in Australia is standing firm against Chinese bullying. We are a net energy and food exporter, no one is going to starve in Australia even if all borders closed tomorrow.

Mr Opinion wrote:

"Like I said, come and see for yourself if you don't believe me. First time visitors usually always ask the same thing: "Where are all the Australians? What are all these Chinese doing here?""

Dear Mr Opinion,

What are you doing here? You're not an Aborigine. You're using a language which nobody in Australia was using before the eighteenth century. Those Chinese have imported a non-Aboriginal culture to Australia as the English did. Many of those Chinese are citizens of Australia as you probably are. The answer to your question, "Where are all the Australians?" is answered by saying, "When you're looking at citizens of Australia with Chinese ancestry you're looking at Australians."

david f,

I'm just repeating what overseas visitors say to me when they first visit Sydney.

Visitors from the Philippines have told they are used to seeing a lot of Chinese in their cities but nothing to the extent of Sydney.

Visitors from overseas are mostly surprised to find so many Chinese in Sydney because they have an impression of Australia that didn't match what they saw.

For myself, I have become accustomed to living in Australia's first Chinese city.

Being an Australian today does not mean anything. It's just a name on a piece of paper.

Outside of the workplace people tend to live in disparate groups and tend to shun others along lines of race and ethnicity. People used to discriminate social groups along lines of class but that has become less dominate today as people identify themselves in terms of religion, race and language.

What is your background? You don't seem to know much about this sort of stuff.