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Hal Grossman
01 March 2007

Dear Mr. Pilger,

Thanks for your article, which I found eye-opening. Here in the USA, we get almost no information about what goes on in Australia.

I wish you'd go one step further and offer an explanation of why the Australian government is so servile towards the US, and why there is no effective opposition. Above all, why does the Australian public tolerate this?

In Canada, where American influence is probably even greater, the Liberal government steered clear of Iraq, and the current Tory government has left that policy intact.

Why is Canada more able to pursue its own foreign policy than Australia? Is it that Australia is afraid of the "yellow hordes" and cleaves to the US for protection?