Bill Birtles is a foreign correspondent who has worked for Australian Broadcasting Corporation in China and Indonesia. His book, The Truth About China : Propaganda, patriotism and the search for answers chronicled his time in the world's second biggest economy, including his narrow escape from the ramifications of arrest of former CCTV anchor Cheng Lei.

But this week we talked about, in English the recent federal election in his native Australia.

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