US ambassador criticises federal Labor opposition for its skeptical stance on Bush's Iraq war; opposition leader Simon Crean rejects the criticism as unprecedented interference in Australian politics. Unprecedented? He seems to have forgotten the Whitlam dismissal, Australia's own bloodless coup against an inconveniently left-wing regime; either that or he's sticking to the polite fiction that there was no US encouragement of it and the G-G acted alone (much as Oswald did, I suppose).

Posted by: alex | http://fnord.org | Wed Feb 12 12:00:55 2003

you forgot about Holt and how he was picked up by an invisible midget submarine.

also: the giant 'unfinished' pyramid holding up the flag over parliament house. enough said.

Posted by: Graham | http://grudnuk.com | Wed Feb 12 12:38:48 2003

Hey, I've been trying to write that into that novel. It might get finished while I'm still eligible for the Vogel. Err, yeah.

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