One of our opposition members of parliament is currently in the headlines because he called our glorious leader an "arse-licker" in public - and refuses to back down. Isn't the quality of language used by our elected leaders wonderful?
He said this because Howard's recent address to Pres. Bush and the US Congress has been described as the worse bit of toadying by an Aussie politician to anybody since we got involved in Vietnam. Howard is standing by his speech........ (Australia is America's closest friend and ally, and we'll be right behind you all the way, so please don't worry about your subsidies to your farmers hurting our trade and we'll be right behind you when you hit Iran kind of stuff)
Now while this may not seem particularly important to the US, I wonder whether any US Catters would say that the american people are very much interested in :
A - What ANY Aussie politician thinks (assuming they do - which is doubtful)?
B - Whether Oz participation does, or can, make much difference to US policy in general?
C - Aussie alliance with US foreign policy?
D - Aussie attitudes to US local presence?
E - Whether the US Free Trade policy we hear about is intended to apply to US imports, as well as their exports?
F - Whether Oz could be included in terrorist targets in retaliation for our commitment to the US?
G - And finally, did anybody know Howard was over there on 9/11 visiting Washington DC, as well as a couple of weeks back - and does anybody in the US care?