Paul1405,

I remember writing a long time ago that the big decisions affecting Australia would be made behind closed doors in Beijing.

And you guessed it! I TOLD YOU SO.

Pig-ignorant people, those still locked in the days of the White Australia Policy, commonly go on about China being overpopulated. On this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density

one can see easily that China is barely half as densely-populated as the UK, and is less densely-populated than almost any other European country. But keep your prejudices if you wish, there's not much anybody else can do about them.

On this site, one can see which countries have declining birth rates:

China again has roughly the same birth rate, 11 per thousand per year (i.e. below ZPG) as the UK.

On this site:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN

one can check

* the fertility rates of women in various countries. Again, China's is about the same as that of the UK.

and

* population growth rates by country. One can see that China (No. 169) as a lower growth rate than the UK (No. 155), or most other European countries.

This is corroborated on these sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate

and

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=24

World population growth should level out by 2100, and decline thereafter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth

Joe

Foul-Mouth,

Your argument above comparing China with the UK tells us more about your lack of education than it does about the physical and human geographies of those countries.

Maybe you can report back to Beijing and get another briefing on how to get your mate Huifeng "Haha" Liu off the hook.

Foul-Mouth & Foxy,

There's a photo in this article which looks like it might be showing Soot Morrison and Gladys Liu waving a big "Ni hao mate!" to Huifeng "Haha" Liu who was watching from the public gallery at the time the photo was taken.

http://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/liberal-mp-gladys-liu-says-allegations-against-chinese-party-donor-concerning-20210104-p56rmt.html

It's not a good look is it?

And from the article it looks like Gladys has thrown old "HaHa" under the bus.

You guys can tell us: Is "HaHa" a Chinese-Australian or an Australian-Chinese or a non-Australian-Chinese or an un-Australian-Chinese?

All this multicultural lingo is just so damn confusing!

Here's another news item with an interesting video about how the Chinese spy network and propagandists have infiltrated Australia:

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/chinese-businessmans-links-to-liberal-mps-need-investigating-labor/news-story/ba9081fab13d5d8f445a840826310911

The question that a lot of people are now asking is:

Has China been able to put a Manchurian Candidate into the Australian Parliament?

"The Australian Emergency Assistance" organisation with 55,000 members !
Why would they need such a large organisation ?
It would be a good "cover" organistion.
If a "request" was made to it I wonder if they would reply "How High ?"