On the matter of bipartisanship on China, Ms. Keneally's hobnobbing with two members of China United Front - propagandists pushing to unite Taiwan with China - can still be viewed online. That could be a bit embarrassing around election time.

Potty Paul,

Just found out about your 'pushback'. What a hero! One of the few of your demented posts that I ever read accused me of sticking my nose into conversations I wasn't part of. It's OK for you to do it though. Doing it for rache were you? What a good little boy you are. Who is the 85 year old you are gibbering about? What time of the day do you hit the turps?

And:

Apart from not being able to mind your own business, you have absolutely no idea of what an appropriate response is. Your $US - $AU to my Yuan - $AU falls as flat as a pancake.

My dig at rache - which was none of your business - was suggesting that he was in pay of China because he is an apologist for our enemy in this instance. No mention of America has been made. The topic is Australia/China only.

If America was a threat to Australia, and I apologised for America, you could say what you did, but it isn't, so your crack is silly.

And, I am not 85, but I've been around long enough to know it's the most ignorant people who make the most noise about anything and everything. You are an exemplar of that.

It's interesting to see how some people are so easily triggered, ruled by their emotions, gullible and likely to be susceptible to scammers.

Mindlessly repeating manufactured and contrived "talking points" may make you think you're well informed but that's not usually the case and the term "useful idiot" applies across the entire political spectrum

I'm not 85 either but in my late 60s and have seen this sort of thing many times before and know former media researchers whose job was to limit and control what we used to read in the newspapers. The only difference is that nowadays social media is the preferred tool of propagandists and is self-perpetuating. It's also how the powerful get people to vote against their best interests.

Also the typical form of political argument is -
If you don't have the facts, argue the law.
If you don't have the law, argue the facts.
If you don't have the facts or the law, call the other person names.
That's when you lose.

ttbn,

I thought you once said you were 85? How surprising a simmilar comment to your own fires you up with claims of alcoholism etc. I thought rache comment was valid, but you seen fit to imply he was a Chinese agent for expressing his opinion.

When you can't tell the truth, make up a lie to suit your narrative. According to one forum poster the Winter Olympics were "rating badly", not so according to Media Week; Seven have "come up trumps" with the ratings for the Winter Olympics, allowing Seven to win week 8 of the period. Maybe he was refering to the TV ratings in Ubeckestan or some such place, certainly not Australia.

"That's when you lose".

You have certainly lost me, rache. I don’t have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Do you?