Don't imagine, Australian readers, that I'm not keeping up with what you're getting up to down there. Consulting The Age is one of my daily ablutions! It's not the most thorough paper, but if you wade through the latest Hollywood celebrity gossip you can still find news on the latest shenanigans of PM John Howard, the last surviving friend of our feckless and now Roveless president: sending dubiously qualified cronies to administer the Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, and wishing India a happy birthday by arranging to sell it lots of uranium. (At right he's with Putin having signed a similar deal with Russia.) But you're kicking him out in a few months, right?
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Empire builders
Don't imagine, Australian readers, that I'm not keeping up with what you're getting up to down there. Consulting The Age is one of my daily ablutions! It's not the most thorough paper, but if you wade through the latest Hollywood celebrity gossip you can still find news on the latest shenanigans of PM John Howard, the last surviving friend of our feckless and now Roveless president: sending dubiously qualified cronies to administer the Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, and wishing India a happy birthday by arranging to sell it lots of uranium. (At right he's with Putin having signed a similar deal with Russia.) But you're kicking him out in a few months, right?