It's outmoded to refer to Australia as ... part of the Anglosphere

Richard Woolcott, Asia-Pacific community could be Rudd's golden legacy

In discussing an Asia-Pacific community, the region cannot be a community, in the capital-C European sense, which would imply a common currency, customs' union and possibly a single market.

This is why we have approached the Asia-Pacific community in a small-c sense ...

I believe that an Asia-Pacific community, in one form or another, is an idea whose time has come ...

It is completely outmoded to refer to Australia, as the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, has done, as being part of the ''Anglosphere''.

The Asia-Pacific community concept merits wider public understanding and bipartisan political support... which will increasingly be the focus of our national foreign and security policy interests.

So Rudd wanted a small-c community? Rubbish, he was and still is thinking big ...

Kevin Rudd, Asia Society AustralAsia Centre Annual Dinner

The European Union of course does not represent an identikit model of what we would seek to develop in the Asia Pacific.

But what we can learn from Europe is this – it is necessary to take the first step.

In the 1950s, sceptics saw European integration as unrealistic.

But most people would now agree that the goal of the visionaries in Europe who sat down in the 1950s and resolved to build prosperity and a common sense of a security community has been achieved.

It is that spirit we need to capture in our hemisphere.

Our special challenge is that we face a region with greater diversity in political systems and economic structures, levels of development, religious beliefs, languages and cultures, than did our counterparts in Europe.

But that should not stop us from thinking big...

By thinking big, capturing the spirit of the EU, and failing to rule out any capital-C sense, Rudd showed his hand. He wants the whole capital-T (for totalitarian) world governance. And no-one should trust him or Woolcott when they put a small-c badge on the same totalitarian monster. That's why Rudd still talks about the age of globalisation of everything.

Over to Nigel Farage ...


File under: small-c or capital-C ... tell em where to go.

Woolcott: Ambassador for Australian extinction

Ambassador for the Australian mentality by Matt Smith.
Ambassador Richard Woolcott (Kevin Rudd’s special envoy to develop the Asia Pacific community) says:

In some extent because of the old White Australia Policy Australia’s on sort of a good behaviour bond in the region, and it’s very important that perceptions of racism and religious intolerance and don’t build up. Most Australians are great believers in a fair go and equality of opportunity. It would be a pity if these perceptions of Australia were tarnished by what is a small minority.

And precisely how many more Asian immigrants do we need before the highly monoracial region will accept us? The only answer we ever get is: more. But KRudd gave the game away:

The European Union of course does not represent an identikit model of what we would seek to develop in the Asia Pacific. But ... It is that spirit we need to capture in our hemisphere.

Ah yes, the spirit of open borders. The spirit of erasing national identity. The spirit of non-existence. Poof! We are no more. Woolcott is the ambassador for Australian extinction, and Matt Smith is another dangerous man without identity.

Democracy weakened by charade

Miranda Devine, SMH:

Progressives really believe that by willing something into being, by talking it up and writing about it and employing their combined brilliance they can somehow engineer a mass change in social sentiment. It is a core belief. But more and more the arguments run away from them.

They can belittle and shun people who refuse to accept the genius of their world view but they just make their enemies stronger because all the energy they expend on maintaining the charade that they represent the reasonable middle ground means they fail competently to perform their day jobs - say, running a democratic country.

All true. KRudd tried hard to maintain a nationalist facade, but couldn't hide his open-borders agenda. The focus groups went ballistic when he declared his love for a big Australia. It was all downhill from there. The danger now, though, is that Gillard is becoming the facade that Rudd couldn't maintain. The prospect of Rudd as Foreign Minister pursuing his open-borders Asia-Pacific Union, whilst Gillard maintains the facade of nationalism, is nauseating.

Hamish MacDonald: man without identity

Hamish MacDonald, open borders prostrator, SMH:

... the election campaign has come at an unfortunate time, causing the Prime Minister to drop out of the annual gathering of leaders of the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum...

You wonder why Julia Gillard cannot take the prime ministerial jet across to Port Vila even for a day to show commitment. It might make her think, too, about the delusion she is fostering of an unchanging Australia with a white picket fence around it, keeping the region and its peoples outside.

I think we should build a white picket fence around Hamish MacDonald, and exhibit him in a museum labelled "Man Without Identity". The children can point and gasp in horror: "Mummy, how can a man have no identity?".