Sorry for the long delay between updates. With work im kinda busy, but ill get back into it, now that things are setteling down again.

The Disappearing Prime Minister trick

Here we are, less than 24 hours away from the peoples representatives debating if Australian troops will face fire in Iraq and our PM is ready to leave to the USA(3rd time in a year) to party with Bush and Blair over their go code for the Launch.

Howard's going under the pretext that he needs to know exactly what our role will be. He’s right, he does, but that does not mean he has to be there in person.

He should send his Defense Minister, Robert Hill, who is supposedly the leading authority on the defense force. He’s the man who is charged with knowing in depth the actions of our defense force, Howard isn’t.

Howard is not the only man of the government, and as a man with no military, defense etc background he will be as useful as the pope at a college orgy.

He should be HERE, in Australia, answering the questions he has avoided for weeks on Iraq. Answering to the people who elected him.

He has spent 2 crucial months on holiday or doing short press conferences , on issues and topics of his choosing, tomorrow he goes before the supreme law making authority in the country the Parliament to explain to the peoples representatives why we should send our men and women out, possibly to die and he’s already organizing to skip town within days.

Howard must have jumped for joy when he got the invitation to meet bush. It lets him skip town, avoid answering any questions, lets him appeal to the pro war people and pro-Americans, and when he gets back it will be too late and the debates will be irrelevant.


Which will leave Australia in the mean-time, not only under the control of John Anderson, a man who probably couldn’t point to Iraq on a map and the amusingly worthless lackeys of Hill & Downer to explain why the government is ignoring the will of the people.

When Parliament was first opened in 1927 the then PM Stanley Bruce wrote a speech on how the parliament should act. Here’s an important line :


‘May they think and act nationally. May they speak with the voice of those who sent them here – the voice of the people’.


John Winston Howard as Prime Minister of this country has a duty to be accountable to the people of Australia. He doesn’t have to always follow the peoples will, but he must LISTEN to them. He promised a parliamentary debate on this issue, yet will only hang around for the time it takes to get the ink dry on his plane tickets out of the country.