... a willingness to control Australia when it manipulated political events through the CIA in the Menzies era to ensure that the right people were elected. What is worse is that the Australian government has shown a willingness to accept control by following the US blindly into unpopular and, at times, immoral wars. Wherever the United States is resisting aggression we will go a-waltzing Matilda ... events by the CIA, often through our own intelligence agency, ASIO and the unquestioning tag along that Australia was during the pointless Vietnam War. And the Australian government is repeatin...

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... Howard's comment on the 1998 Waterfront dispute between the Maritime Union of Australia and Patrick Stevedores was a hypocritical and ignorant description of one of Australia's worst industrial relations disputes. The Australian Government considers that Australia is poorly served by its waterfront industry. The serious inefficiencies that have persisted on the waterfront, despite previous reforms, have acted as a brake on economic growth and ... international competitiveness. "The globalising strategies of both Labour and Liberal governments have intensified the pressure on Australian ...

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