Posted on 11/24/2007 8:13:19 PM PST by RDTF
AUSTRALIA’S new prime minister Kevin Rudd will mark his arrival on the international stage by announcing the withdrawal of his country’s combat troops from Iraq and signing the Kyoto treaty on climate change.
Rudd, a republican and former diplomat, swept to power as his Labor party stormed to a landslide victory in yesterday’s elections.
Official figures showed Labor had won more than 53% of the vote, compared with just under 47% for the ruling Liberal coalition of John Howard, who had served four terms as prime minister but lost his seat. Computer projections forecast that Labor would secure 86 seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament.
Rudd, 50, who has been called a “Tone Clone” for his similarities to Tony Blair on policy, told cheering supporters that the electorate had decided to “write a new page in our nation’s history”.
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The yutes of Sydney must be happy.
I’m sure it will appease the angry Muslims in Australia.
Or, not:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22663795-601,00.html
How is 53% to 47% a “landslide victory”?
I was just wondering that myself... sure sounds like a ‘mandate’ of some kind. /sarc
Wonder how that's working for him?
Think of the Clintons and their crew taking the reins in ‘92, only even more “in-’yo’-face.”
Peter Garrett, the ex-Midnight Oil rocker is now going to be his Enviro Minister.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Not that the Aussie troops aren’t appreciated but how many are in Iraq?
Not being a follower of Australian politics … what, exactly, was the reason for the downfall of the Howard government?
But the Diggers aren’t.
Buy more guns and keep your powder dry...
About 500, I think. Not signifigant in themselves, bur symbolically important as an indicator of Australian alliance.
I weep for Australia.
After a decade or so of flirting with every PC / liberal idea that the left could think of, they were back on the track to being the small yet great nation of rugged individualists with common sense and courage.
And now they are back to being sheep instead of raising them.
that just made me think of Mike and the Mechanics
Sounds like we would have been better off if Howard himself had pulled the troops. At least he could have pulled them and said that they were no longer needed in Iraq.
Good luck on that Kyoto thing.
i guess this is news. it’s certainly not a surprise.
Rudd plans to bring home most Australian troops from Iraq and Afghanistan
And what about that major Australian export: coal??
HA!
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