Why would that be? Hun Sen, this is your life! Let's have a little chat about Scotty's new BFF Hun Sen. You know, the former Khmer Rogue leader? That one. For a start, he's been Prime Minister of Cambodia for 25 years. You'd assume from that sort of length of time that he was a dictator, right? But no: as Morrison has repeatedly assured us, Cambodia's a democratic country, and Hun has just happened to have been returned time and time again. Others disagree, like Amnesty International and the United Nations: the first accused him of war crimes and of torturing prisoners and political opponents, and the latter demanded he step down after they monitored Cambodia's elections and found them laughably corrupt. Hun decided not to worry about either.

And Cambodia is a wealthy country with a strong textile and agricultural sectors, as Mozza has made clear. It's also the country with lowest quality of life of the ASEAN countries, with endemic poverty, 40 per cent malnutrition among its children, and - on a not-unrelated note - is currently ranked as the second most corrupt nation on the planet, second only to North Korea. So, to recap: your government is chuffed to deal with a war criminal presiding over a dictatorship in order to send people to one of the most poverty-stricken regions on the planet. Oh, and we've just paid said war criminal $40 million to sweeten the deal - money which will no doubt be used wisely, right? I know that this sort of thing just sounds like business as usual these days, but just to be clear: this isn't something with which you should be basically fine. Let's have a little talk about racism Racism's not OK. Like, it's not even a little bit OK. And look, you know that.

That's a statement that really shouldn't need to be expressed in 2014, but apparently people think it's OK to spit on folks of Middle Eastern appearance, tell them to go back where they came from, vandalise their property, and even write insanely inflammatory columns about the t-t-t-terrorisms in newspapers, including this one. So I'm just going to make this crystal clear: if you think this is reasonable, there is something wrong with your think-meat. Tony Abbott might be down with putting your kids at risk by telling a generation of angry, alienated young Muslims that they're not real Australians and that they have no place in our society, and Bill Shorten might be totes fine with going along with it. They are wrong. And thankfully the wider community has been banding together in the face of this nonsense, via rallies and social media campaigns. These folks recognise that people from all over the planet have come to Australia and amazingly, for the most part we've gotten along - and benefited massively as a result. It's a tough country, Australia, and we needed to help each other to make lives here. So with remarkably little trouble, we did.

Now that admirable history is being kicked apart by idiots who don't understand that this is a nation made almost entirely of immigrants. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's not us-and-them, because there's there's no "them". There's only us. Yelling at people in the street is merely confirming the propaganda that ISIL et al are spreading, which is that there's a war between the West and Islam. You anti-Muslim idiots are doing a better job of radicalising Muslims than any iman could. And abstract questions of basic human respect aside: we know from the US experience that most of the terrorists caught by authorities were dangerous people reported by friends and family. You really want to turn allies into enemies and put Australia at risk? Keep spouting your racism and hatred, morons. You're doing ISIL's job for them. Sport trumps biogtry There has a been a win, though: the International Olympic Committee have agreed - after a concerted campaign by activist groups around the globe, including Australia - to make discrimination against folks on the basis of their sexuality a reason to deny them an Olympics.

Specifically, there's a new clause in the contract for host cities which states that the city will "conduct all activities in a manner which promotes and enhances the fundamental principles and values of Olympism, in particular the prohibition of any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise, as well as the development of the Olympic Movement." It's in response to the harsh anti-gay laws passed in Russia ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics, which could have seen gay athletes deported or even jailed for not being un-gay. From now on, nations, you'd better think pretty hard about whether pointlessly hating gay folks is a price worth paying for missing out on an Olympics. In related news, maybe hold off on printing thousands of "Bahrain 2022!" t-shirts. Ebola-a-go-go But just in case you're feeling OK about things, be advised that Ebola is looking less like a possible epidemic in western Africa and more like the new normal.