Whether or not the media and the Australian government are victims of the Chinese communist regime’s propaganda - I wonder. The widespread human rights abuses in China are well document and verified by the United Nations and Amnesty International. The stances our media and more notably, our government are taking are not the result of ignorance but choice. An interesting article from the ABC website shows Mr Rudd’s response to these issues such as the ongoing forced organ removal from detained Falun Gong practitioners in China after he was contacted by renowned human rights lawyer David Matas.

In fact all of our politicians have been made acutely aware of these atrocities, the genocide of Falun Gong practitioners and the persecution of other spiritual/religious beliefs in China. To me to see our politicians gushing of Hu Jintao like that was shameful. I hope the Australian public will continue to have a voice on these important issues and I wait for our politicians to display a sense of conscience and condemn the Chinese communist regime’s crimes against humanity.