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RSVP
07 March 2007

The crimes and misdeeds of the current Australian government need to be brought to a wider audience, so cheers Mr Pilger. This jumped up little Hitler of a PM down here really takes the cake. His arrogance is almost as scary as his heartlessness, not to mention the ghouls that surround him, namely Downer and Costello.
Bush has a lap-dog in another resource rich part of the world. Someone to basically make and secure resources with.
I mean for instance. Howard has ordered A$15 billion dollars worth of fighter jet from Lockheed Martin, but also, just incase the delivery deadline is not met(which Lockheed assure will not be the case), another A$6 billion on a completely different type of fighter! This all terrorist deterent spending of course, but never widely reported.
The AWB kick-backs scandal was widely reported. But although it brought serious questions regarding Australian overseas trade to the fore, the ministers and government who's watch this came under, were allowed to swat it away like a fly in the outback. The lack of any sort of taking on responsibility was appalling.
The corker was though the US took over grain trading contracts for Iraq, as if to say 'you gotta take a bit of a hiding for bringing too much notice to us and our affairs. Plus we can placate some of our citizens, ie farmers into the bargain'.
Elections are held in this country in November if not before, and a change is in the wind! What difference will be made, we will see, but certainly the behaviour of this current government is giving this country a very poor image overseas.
The general population may be a happy go lucky bunch, but i think the powers that be want to keep the population dumded down and ill-informed. You just need to study the mainstream media coverage out here to see what i mean. I hope someday soon this land will wake up to the wrong-un their being bowled by Howard and his cronies, and demand goverment which delivers on line and length!