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Don't worry, Australia is far more supportive of the US as an Australian FRer put on the current Australian political climate:

"The Greens are way out on the lunatic left. They are lead by a guy called Bob Brown who is a complete fruit loop.

The Australian Democrats started off as a centralist party but have now moved so far to the left that, from my point of view, they are little different to the Greens. They now call themselves "the lie detectors" which is hilarious because if you asked any of them if they support their leader they would all lie and say "yes". Their leader is Senator Andrew Bartlett who recently physically assaulted a female senator on the floor of the senate and told her to F#%k-off. He was drunk at the time and has since admitted that he has a drinking problem. He is their leader because no-one else wants the job.

Next we have the Australian Labor Party which contains about 16,000 different factions ranging from far left to far right. On some issues, such as welfare, their current leader Mark Latham sounds further to the right than the Government. The last two ALP governments of Hawke & Keating could hardly be described as left wing and were certainly pro US. I suspect that if the ALP do win the next election that they will be similar to the Hawke/Keating governments. They will of course, as all ALP governments do, totally screw up the economy.

Finally we have the unfortunately named Liberal Party (and their almost indistinguishable coalition partner - The National Party). They are the current conservative Government and are far from "liberal" in the sense that it is used on Free Republic. They are the good guys.

As far as I can make out, the major parties (ALP & Liberals) have moved further to the right in recent years and the minor parties have moved further to the left."

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