Mr Hamidi is a disappointed man, since he was hoping to make millions of dollars out of a half-baked set of leaked documents that he was trying to sell on behalf of an UMNO agent working for Najib on various scams before the last election.

He turned to Sarawak Report and made clear a number of times that “cold, hard cash comes first, my country second”.  After months of trying to persuade him otherwise Sarawak Report published what details there were without his required payment being made.

Sarawak Report has not made money out of Malaysia (until recent books sales) and its law firm is not ‘pro bono’ as alleged. The payment from Hadi does not fully cover the legal costs of defending the case brought by PAS. So, Mr Hamidi has no need to envy Sarawak Report, which has not earned enough to pay tax in a decade.

Meanwhile, he lives in a country governed by mainly “white” people, who have provided him with a nice subsidised state accommodation in central Melbourne and furthermore pay both him and his son a living wage from the state to take care of a disabled relative.

Sarawak Report suggests Mr Hamidi ought count his blessings in his old age rather than continuing to mistakenly envy others in pursuit of a tainted crock of gold.

Finally, to answer his question, Sarawak Report writes about the country he has personally abandoned because it cares about the oppressed peoples in Sarawak; the danger of mass deforestation and species extinction and about the effects of global corruption on all our futures.