Is that the sound of Pauline Hanson choking?

In a book she wrote, well-known racist and scare­mon­ger, Sen­ator Pau­line Hanson, warned Aus­tralia about the future, where an Asian cyborg les­bian would be run­ning the coun­try [note: link goes to PDF of Hansard quot­ing the book]. 

Today, newly sworn-in Labor Prime Min­is­ter Kevin Rudd sent Penny Wong to Bali to ratify the Kyoto Pro­tocol as his first act in his new role (go, Kev!). So, does Penny have any cyber­netic enhance­ments we should know about? And does Pau­line have a time-machine? Because we could make some good money if we know it’s Penny Wong for Pres­id­ent in 2050. As a cyborg, the 40-year wait won’t bother her.

(Ser­i­ously, I think it’s fant­astic that Penny Wong is the rep for this and that no report I’d read before seeing the link on 

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‘s LJ actu­ally men­tioned her ori­ent­a­tion or eth­ni­city. As I wrote in my thesis, I struggle with how we address diversity and oppres­sion without labels. I look for­ward to a world without labels but until we have equal­ity within diversity for all, I’m happy to cel­eb­rate the increased vis­ib­il­ity of women, non-Anglos and non-het­ero­sexu­als in pos­i­tions of power.)