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Australian Prime Minister John Howard walks past a campaign poster promoting his opposition, Labor Party...

SYDNEY, Australia - Conservative Prime Minister John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat Saturday at the hands of the left-leaning opposition, whose leader has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdraw Australia's combat troops from Iraq.

Labor Party head Kevin Rudd's pledges on global warming and Iraq move Australia sharply away from policies that had made Howard one of President Bush's staunchest allies.

Rudd has named global warming as his top priority, and his signing of the Kyoto Protocol will leave the U.S. as the only industrialized country not to have joined it.

Rudd said he would withdraw Australia's 550 combat troops from Iraq, leaving twice that number in mostly security roles. Howard had said all the troops will stay as long as needed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071124/ap_on_...lia_election_27

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Bout damn time,....!!

"When a man is educated, an individual is educated; when a woman is educated, a family and a country are educated."

— Mahatma Gandhi

The timeline... (Frankfurt) for the kids visas

10/22/2007 Filed I-130 x 2 in person + paid 710 USD (355 each )

10/22/2007 Filed DS-230 part 1 x 2

10/22/2007 Received the document checklist and FRN (case) numbers

12/18/2007 I-130 petition approved, but I didn't know. I was away at the time, didn't get confirmation letters til I got back from the states.

12/20/2007 Notice of Approval arrives in tha mail. According to the date received stamp on back of envelope at my post box.

Will now wait til hubby is back from Iraq to fax in checklist readiness, even though, I have been ready since day of lodging I-130's. all except medical.

02/18/2008 Faxed the "checklist" back to the consulate.

02/25/2008 Medicals completed.

02/25/2008 Appt letters in mail for appt on March 7th. Cant go due to prior military commitments. Emailed consulate and received an amended appt date of March 12th 2008.

03/12/2008 Visa interview - APPROVED x 2

03/27/2008 Visa's finally generated. I emailed the consulate. they apologised for the delay. They forgot to issue the visas after approval.

03/31/2008 Received visas

04/26/2008 Flying out of Frankfurt to next duty station on orders.

one...two...tree Grand Master

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Bush didn't lose popularity alone. He took all of his allies with him. ;)

Bit off topic but I always find it interesting here that rarely does anyone mention Bush, he's like the invisible President.

His number is up. Not much he can do now except threaten to veto.

Chica Yeyé Grand Master

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I will be following what he does with the Australian's multiculturalism policy. Will be interesting to see!

Thanks for the post Steve brother'o'mine.

;) Next step...communist Oz! I'm salivating.

Maybe we should open the First International of Commies 4 Christ in Aukland brother... I hear the weather is just lovely mate!

one...two...tree Grand Master

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I will be following what he does with the Australian's multiculturalism policy. Will be interesting to see!

Thanks for the post Steve brother'o'mine.

;) Next step...communist Oz! I'm salivating.

Maybe we should open the First International of Commies 4 Christ in Aukland brother... I hear the weather is just lovely mate!

Crikey! That's brilliant! The Maori might be a tough crowd though...

Chica Yeyé Grand Master

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I will be following what he does with the Australian's multiculturalism policy. Will be interesting to see!

Thanks for the post Steve brother'o'mine.

;) Next step...communist Oz! I'm salivating.

Maybe we should open the First International of Commies 4 Christ in Aukland brother... I hear the weather is just lovely mate!

Crikey! That's brilliant! The Maori might be a tough crowd though...

Maori people are fantastic - strong, resilient and wise. The ones I've met through my work are (before I get :bonk: for making generalizations) ;)

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Ironically the Iraq war was not an issue in this election. Also, Australians do not think or vote like your average American. We don't simply vote on the personality.

What did he leave Aus. The lowest unemployment rate amongst all English speaking nations. As well as the highest living standard when compared to any other English speaking nation. Actually as of last year Australians now earn much more than Americans.

His loss is for reasons many here would not understand as they do not live there..

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the 400 richest American households earned a total of $US138 billion, up from $US105 billion a year earlier. That's an average of $US345 million each, on which they paid a tax rate of just 16.6 per cent.

 

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