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In the last few weeks there has been much talk of Kevin Rudd's relations with China and his all-too-convenient ability to speak their language. Public pressure has been mounting on the PM to "come down hard" on China for abuses of human rights, particularly in Tibet recently - and there have even been calls from some of our athletes to boycott the Chinese Olympics.

Ironically, when we had our own little athletics carnival in Sydney, 2000 we only won the chance to host the games over China by the tiniest of majorities in the Olympic voting committee because the committee couldn't decide who had the worst human rights record. Luckily, our record was SLIGHTLY better than china's (thanks, largely, to population size) so we got the Olympics before them!

So, if K.Rudd turns up and "orders" the Chinese to start practising human rights like a "civilised" country, it should be completely acceptable to them and not sound hypocritical at all.
Maybe we could send a delegation of detained asylum-seekers, Guantanamo Bay inmates and Indigenous Australians (who were taken off our FAUNA list in 1967) just to add extra credibility to our criticisms...

Shown above are some of greatest, heroic moments in Australian human rights - including our brilliant and fair handling of indigenous affairs, detaining people who are escaping persecution in other countries, the excellent and pride-inspiring handling of the David Hicks case and our ULTRA-PROTECTIVE child labour laws.

More blogs about Human Rights Bliss - Australian Egalitarian Ideals - Australian Happy-Fun Human Rights Camp.

With a voter popularity rate of just 7% (the lowest in Australian Liberal history), Brendan Nelson would certainly appear to be an underdog. But that underdog status could only possibly be granted if one ignores the fact that the man is clearly a hedgehog... and even less popular with the hedgehog community than the human world.

After conducting several thousand well researched and scientifically plausible surveys amongst Australian hedgehogs, our researchers found that Stephen Smith, the Foreign Affairs Minister, is more popular a hedgehog than Dr Nelson by a stunning 8,000,000%.

While both men have essentially the same qualities (a thick, healthy coat of spines, for example), but Australian hedgehogs clearly preferred Mr Smith to Dr Nelson who had supported refusing to apologise to hedgehogs for zoological living conditions across the country for the past 12 years of Government.

Shown above are some of the angry hedgehogs who feel "ripped off" by Dr Nelson's use of their image.

More blogs about Brendan Nelson - Liberal Popularity - well-spoken apologies.