With my birthday yesterday I was reflecting on the way I first got into public life. I was only 20 years old when Chinese international students at my Australian university basically tried to form a lynch mob against me because I insulted Xi Jinping.
The University of Queensland then spent half a million dollars trying to expel me as a student because they didn't want to lose their close economic relationship with China.
Actually unbelievable that none of these foreign students were deported at the time. Australia actually had a Liberal conservative government and they didn't deport a single person. We were so, so cucked as a nation.
In the end I managed to defeat the University of Queensland's attempt to expel me basically only because Senator Marco Rubio told the Australian government that the Americans were not happy. I only learned that years later.
I like the Americans. Fuck communists and fuck our cucked self hating governments in the West.
In 1838, only one in seven men could vote. Not women. Not workers. Not the poor.
So ordinary people wrote a charter. Six demands. The right to vote. Secret ballots. Pay for MPs.
They collected 1.2 million signatures. Parliament rejected it.
They collected 3.3 million signatures. Parliament rejected it.
The government arrested their leaders. Transported them to Australia. Soldiers opened fire on a march in Newport. Twenty-two killed.
They collected 5.7 million signatures. Parliament rejected it.
Three petitions. Ten million signatures. Three rejections.
They didn't stop. Over sixty years, five of the six demands became law. Working men got the vote. Secret ballots. MPs paid.
Every time you vote, that's them. Ordinary people who refused to be ignored.
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