Budget Hockey wants control destiny but China does Business cartoon 2014-05-17
Budget Hockey wants control destiny but China does Business cartoon 2014-05-17 (more…)
Budget Hockey wants control destiny but China does Business cartoon 2014-05-17 (more…)

The business editor and I both thought this cartoon was a bit tasteless or might offend people if they thought it had racist overtones, but I still thought it was rather funny. I see it ultimately as anti-racist as it notes we don’t get paranoid about Canadian buyouts of big agriculture companies like Warrnambool Cheese and Butter, but we do about Chinese investment. Anyway, i decided what the heck and put it on my website.

Malcolm Fraser speech on China
This cartoon was a response to Malcolm Fraser’s speech at Asialink on the dangers of the US policy of containment of China and the risk of Australia being drawn into a war with China against our interests and wishes. The Australian government appears to be floundering in its response to both the desire of China to invest in Australian mining and agriculture, and to the expansion of Chinese power and influence in the Asia/Pacific.
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Marsupial
Thisdiscussion about Chinese investment has raged all week and is an argument we have to have. Barnaby has excelled himself, and takes the narrow view that whatever makes him popular in the local is the way to go for Australia. Slight worry. He might be Deputy Leader under a future Abbott government
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Beaten to it

war