
I'm becoming a big fan of Adelaide's Independent senator Nick Xenophon . He's one of those rare politicians who is thoughtful and deliberate and votes not along party lines but for his convictions. He's staunchly anti-gambling, an unpopular position in a nation that's been overrun by 'pokies' and multi-million dollar lotteries. I'm with him 100% on that stance, not for any moralistic reasons, but because gambling is, at its very root, a tax on the poor*. But that's not what I came to tell you about. Came to talk about China. Xenophon made the front [...]