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In 2003, The Age’s Mark Baker warned that John Howard’s “abrasiveness” put Australia’s reputation in Asia at risk. Times change:
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has thrown his country’s full support behind Australia’s inclusion in a future East Asian summit and has agreed to forge a security pact, heralding an era of closer relations between the two countries.
Even Paul Keating approves, after a fashion.
Well done John! BUT THE HUG at the airport was over the top.
Abrasiveness? was’nt that the domain of Paul Keating?In the meantime according to LGF the Muslims are pushing for Sh’rai law to be introduced in Australia.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12746354-421,00.html
A SPECIALIST Islamic court is among proposals Muslim leaders have raised with Howard Government ministers to resolve religious disputes such as divorce within Australian Muslim communities.The imam from Sydney’s largest mosque met Citizenship Minister Peter McGauran last week to raise concerns about a failure to adequately resolve religious disputes, a longstanding problem within Muslim communities….
The government told them to “Sharia” off, if you are at all worried, davo.
Posted by Quentin George on 2005 04 05 at 03:44 AM • permalinkSteve, that’d be the Paul guy who called Australia the “arse end of the world”.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 04 05 at 05:12 AM • permalinkI say Recalcitrant
And you say Rebarbative,
You say I rave and rant,
And I say you have to give
Credit - for I got Asia to the table;
Let’s slag the Howard thing off.
Spotlight on me please!(meanwhile - I’m still waiting for somebody to find that picture of Paul in the silliest of silly Indonesian hats on his last visit to bapak. Seems to have been expunged from the records!)
Tim & Andrea, I haven’t seen either of you permit guest posts but nevertheless it would be good to invite Alison Broinowski to submit one on what she thinks the recent developments in Australia-Asia relations(say post-Boxing Day 2004) signify. Unless she has done something already for .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)...
From http://www.acronymfinder.com/, for the acronym “APEC”:
Access, Process, Employ, and Collaborate (intelligence community)
Acquisition Planning Executive Council
Aircrew Protection Executive Committee
Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada
Applied Power Electronics Conference
Asia Pacific Economic Conference
Asian-Pacific Employees Committee
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Association for the Preservation of English in Canada
Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (Canada)Which one, nwab?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 04 05 at 09:56 AM • permalinkThere was a great column on this in yesterday’s Australian:
With this week’s visits by two leading Southeast Asian leaders, perhaps critics of John Howard’s regional policy should eat their wordsPosted by Art Vandelay on 2005 04 05 at 08:46 PM • permalinkDavo, it does explain Beazley, Mike Moore and Phillip Adams though…
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 04 05 at 11:48 PM • permalinkI’ve found Alison Broinowski’s contact details at http://www.saxton.com.au/default.asp?nc8=100&sc8=141&sd8=894 actually its her agent for speaking engagements. The profile is very funny and she is able to speak about ‘Asianation’ whatever that may be.
NWAB is an acronym too
http://jim.pp.ru/helps/echo/files/acronyms.txtMark L — In Simpsons-speak, the word is spelled “HAH-hah!”
If you don’t want to be abrasive, move to Canada. If you want to be a nation with an active role in world affairs, plainly state that your nation has interests and act on them.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 06 at 10:24 AM • permalink
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Ahh PJK…Loony old man will drop pants for food. Now the loony old man dancers… It was me me me. Who cares loony old man.
“Paul Keating was prime minister from 1991 to 1996,” and he’s never gotten over it.