Non-Agression Payment

To chew over.

John Howard is finally willing to accept that Australia is a South-East Asian nation with our first participation at the ASEAN summit, held in Laos. Well, South-East Asian enough to establish trade agreements that would 'lock Australia into a market of more than 500 million people with a total economic production of $863 billion' (ninemsn), but not South-East Asian enough to agreee to NOT BOMB the other countries in our region.

So, Howard doesn't want to sign the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC). I can understand that. After all, apparently signing the TAC would prevent Australia from speaking out against humanitarian crises. Like how because we didn't have any treaties with Africa we were able to send over peacekeeping forces to Sudan and...oh, are you gesturing to me? Be quiet? But...b...why? Oh..I see.

In other news, John Anderson is reeling after that whole bribe-allegation thing. He's just stoked that maybe people will actually learn who he is now. You know, before the Liberals realise they no longer need the Nationals for safe passage of bills.

Also, hands up who heard about this story:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11506725%255E26462,00.html

Yeah, me neither.