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AUSTRALIA has a vital national interest in the promotion and maintenance of stability in our region. Yesterday the Government received a formal request from the Government of East Timor for military assistance to help that country in the restoration of security, confidence and peace. The Government has agreed in principle to this request, and, subject to the final agreement of East Timor to the conditions of the mission, Australia is preparing to send an Australian Defence Force battalion group of approximately 1300 personnel to help our near neighbour. This action follows a significant deterioration in the security situation in East...

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2005 – President Bush today met with Australia Prime Minister John Howard, a man he called an "old friend" and whose country has become an important U.S. ally in the war on terror. "Australia and the United States share a commitment to freedom," the president said. "We understand we compete against an ideology of hatred, an ideology that murders the innocent in order to achieve objectives. "We know we must be steadfast and strong when it comes to bringing to justice those who would kill innocent life, like those who got killed in New York City and...

More “Liberal Patriotism” from John Kerry By: Christopher G. Adamo In light of John Kerry’s hypersensitivity towards any questioning of his “patriotism,” it is noteworthy that in the last few days, he has presented yet another example of his completely warped definition of the concept. In an earlier time, it would have been universally understood that efforts to discourage America’s allies from supporting such a worthy cause as the war on terror, were blatantly unpatriotic. Yet that is precisely what Kerry has done. Among the most memorable statements of President Bush’s September 20 2001 address to the joint session of...