Xenophobia

A lot of racists make remarks by starting with "I'm not a racist but.... " but they are bloody blatant racists.

Today, the WA and Federal governments have granted the Chinese some land within the Ord River Scheme to function as its food bowl.  So you have the Nationals and some Liberals jumping up and down over the purchase of irrigated agricultural land by the Chinese.  I wonder why no one made noise when a British lord bought huge swathe of land in WA a long time ago.  He is the mistaken subject of a current controversy in BBC.  And in The Australian, there is an insulting cartoon with a food bowl shaped like Australia (without Tasmania!) with a pair of chopsticks.  I wonder what Wendy Deng has to say...  It is her husband's newspaper.

If no one else wants to pay for that land at whatever price the government wants and a Chinese investor moves in, you cannot help but question whether xenophobia is part of the reason why.  Likewise, the Chinese would also want to buy Aussie resource stocks too as they are so cheap by world standard.