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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Australia’s Right missing in action.

Over the last days we have had a communist dictatorship – the historical bete noire of the right – holding sway in Australia. John Howard doing walks around the Lake Burley Griffin, press conferences, and lunches with Wen Jiabao, the visiting communist Chinese Premier.

In Sydney the NSW Premier avoided the state funeral of Pro Hart so he could scramble to Sydney airport for a brief audience with the visiting Chinese leader.

Afterwards he held a press conference which allowed no questions and Australian print and radio journalist were denied access. It appears that the visiting Chinese media might have been allowed in.

Newspapers were filled with columnists writing of the wonders of Australia’s great new relationship with China.

But the historical critics of communists – the right – have been missing in action.

Where was Gerard Henderson? Where was Michael Duffy? Or Piers Ackerman or Janet Janet Albrechtsen or Greg Sheriden. These right wing warriors who normally like to rail against the left.

This biggest left wing party in town for some time with the rulers of the biggest communist regime in history and not a squeak from these normally outspoken critics.

Why? Because it matters nothing whether left or right when there are big dollars to be made from selling uranium.

While the Howard Government and its allies spout forth about their glorious mission to bring democracy to Iraq, when it comes to our nearer neighbour China – where millions are repressed and where if you set up an Liberal Party you’d be jailed – the right and their supposed adherence to freedom and democracy vanish.
 

 

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