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April 24, 2005

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I have been wondering about why Australia's aid package to Indonesia was so large when they announced it - 1 billion dollars Australian, $50 from every man, woman and child in Australia. Could it have been to buy the support of Indonesia in taking part in the ASEAN summit later this year?

The President of Indonesia recently visited Australia in April:

During his visit, designed mainly to drum up Australian investments in Indonesia, Yudhoyono charmed his Australian hosts - even going to the extent of promising to support Australia's inclusion at the East Asian summit in December.

In a speech at Parliament House in Canberra, Yudhoyono acknowledged that the relationship between the two close neighbours had seen many ups and downs over the years. "Recently we have begun to relate to each other differently," he observed.

Yup... I'm sure a billion dollars buys a lot of "good relations"

 posted by JackH on 04.24.05 at 12:06 AM in the




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Excerpt: "I have been wondering," by JackH, Simon World, 23 April 2005, http://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/077568.php. Australia is one of the "Core" countries of the world economy -- fully functioning, deeply integrated, free, and open for business. Indonesi...
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And not only that political manouevering, but the aid money actually ends up boomerainging back to Australian companies as well. Naomi NoLogo Klein has written in TheNation.com about the vunerability of countries in crisis...

 posted by: expatatlarge on 04.24.05 at 11:12 PM [permalink]




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