[DUMBGRUNT]

This tends to piss me off! My surname pops up in a few places on the 'convict' lists of Australia. You know, they forgot to pay the gas bill up in the Highlands, or something.

Oh well! Better off than on!

[Gay State Conservative]

Communist countries are famous (infamous,actually) for doping their athletes and have been for decades.When the Berlin Wall fell one of the many,many,*many* interesting things the world learned from East German government documents was that their female athletes were being given male hormones.No wonder "Greta" weighed in at 100 kilos and bench press 200 kilos.

Of *course* China is doping their athletes...it's simply in their nature.

[Mr. Douglas]

I thought everyone was a convict in Austrailia. Isn’t that why it’s there?

[Cowboy Bob]

The Global Times tabloid opted for a more blunt approach, referring to Australia in a commentary as a former British "offshore prison"

Is someone claiming it wasn't?

[blueplum]

Unlike China, prisoners dumped in Australia (and even the USA), born with the right to reason, were given the opportunity to work their sentences off and so they built a nation in the process, which was the entire point. China, otoh, forcefully “reeducates” entire families against freedom of thought through hard labor, using its lifetime prisons as organ and sex “donation” centers, and so in the same length of time they’ve accomplished little more than growing a militarized feudal slave dynasty. And that is why, I’ll take the free nation of Australia for 1000, please, Alex.

[Tai_Chung]

I am now a bigger fan of Australia

[Enchante]

“fringes of civilization”???

Commie China has been lost to civilization....