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Not everyone Down Under likes what Xenophon did in Malaysia on the weekend. At least, some Australians are more mature and wise in weighing the circumstances.
As Anwar's walking stick, he forgets that his support for Pakatan Rakyat also carries his recognition for Pas, a party deemed as 'extreme' by many.
Whether the detention and deportation order on him was done accordingly or not, I think we Malaysians can manage our own soil without such any foreign intervention. If they don't like us to intervene in their domestic affairs, why should we provide them rooms to interfere with ours?ONE of Australia's senior commentators has taken maverick independent senator Nick Xenophon to task for his 'foolish or cynically self-promoting' episode in Malaysia at the weekend.The Australian newspaper’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan said Xenophon’s call for the Australian government to monitor the forthcoming Malaysian elections was "stupid and impractial".Sheridan also accused Xenophon of "campaigning for just one side of Malaysian politics -- the opposition".Sheridan said Foreign Minister Bob Carr was right to make his response to Xenophon's deportation as low key as possible and to agree with his Malaysian counterpart that the issue would not affect relations between the two countries."Carr should take no further action on the matter, nor is he likely to," he said."He (Xenophon) might reflect on the fact the side he supports contains as perhaps its strongest element the most extreme Islamist party in mainstream Southeast Asian politics.""Xenophon wants the Australian government to send electoral monitors to the forthcoming Malaysian elections. This idea is stupid and impractical," Sheridan said.Citing electoral problems in Vietnam and Cambodia, Sheridan said Malaysia "on any measure is one of the most democratic and freewheeling nations in Southeast Asia."Its elections are certainly not perfect, but they are better than in most parts of the world."Indeed, its very openness allows people such as Xenophon to grandstand there." -- BERNAMA
Yes, what is so clean about politics but at least we have proven our fairness to others, the opposition, outsiders and those big mouth of the West that in some aspects, we are much better than them.
So, people like Xenophon should stop criticising others when his own domestic affairs are still very much in disarray!