Posted to The Age (18/11/2011) on 18/11/2011 at 12:26 PM
Commenting on "Gillard goes 'all the way' with Obama's big regional push"
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/gillard-goes-all-the-way-with-obamas-big-regional-push-20111117-1nl15.html
If there are laws on almost every form of discrimination, one more should be added to the list - international alliance discrimination! How will the US President or international leaders react if China were to propose forming close alliance with some of small countries in the Pacific region and set up military "training" bases there? How will the Australian Government and its citizens respond to China's proposal to set up bases around Broome, probably to keep an eye on Indonesia, or in the name of safeguarding the Asian Pacific region due to the US presence? These are not absurd questions, and Australian Government will need to start thinking before the latter proposal is put on the table.
Millions of acres of land, especially in the northwest of Australia, have been sold to unknown, non-government buyers from different countries. I am not a scare monger, not to the extend to say that there will be production of WOM, but I can think of many ways the "farmland" can be used or camouflaged which can bring Australia to its knees. Satellite surveillance system can detect a lot of things from above, and yet refugee boats slipped through detection. If it cannot detect what's above ground / sea surface, what hope can the system detect what's going on below?
Foreigners owning Australia's sovereign land is better than wars, because it involves no bloodshed. While prevention is better than cure, it is useless once infiltration has already taken place. Occupation of land is the beginning of infiltration and it is not limited to China only!
Commenting on "Gillard goes 'all the way' with Obama's big regional push"
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/gillard-goes-all-the-way-with-obamas-big-regional-push-20111117-1nl15.html
If there are laws on almost every form of discrimination, one more should be added to the list - international alliance discrimination! How will the US President or international leaders react if China were to propose forming close alliance with some of small countries in the Pacific region and set up military "training" bases there? How will the Australian Government and its citizens respond to China's proposal to set up bases around Broome, probably to keep an eye on Indonesia, or in the name of safeguarding the Asian Pacific region due to the US presence? These are not absurd questions, and Australian Government will need to start thinking before the latter proposal is put on the table.
Millions of acres of land, especially in the northwest of Australia, have been sold to unknown, non-government buyers from different countries. I am not a scare monger, not to the extend to say that there will be production of WOM, but I can think of many ways the "farmland" can be used or camouflaged which can bring Australia to its knees. Satellite surveillance system can detect a lot of things from above, and yet refugee boats slipped through detection. If it cannot detect what's above ground / sea surface, what hope can the system detect what's going on below?
Foreigners owning Australia's sovereign land is better than wars, because it involves no bloodshed. While prevention is better than cure, it is useless once infiltration has already taken place. Occupation of land is the beginning of infiltration and it is not limited to China only!