I'm currently back in Glasgow after a weekend (that's since Thursday) in the Outer Hebrides and Skye. More details later.
I would like to take this opportunity though to show my personal condemnation at the Howard Government's non-response to videos of Australian soldiers dressed in Ku Klux Klan outfits and binge-drinking. It sends an extremely negative and abhorrent message to the world about our country, although it was hardly surprising, considering Howard's refusal to denounce Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party at their peak in the late 1990s.
If Howard can equate voting for the Democrats in the US as giving comfort to terrorists and fail to criticize this kind of behaviour from our own armed forces it just shows how much of a narrow-minded, outdated and racially prejudiced person he actually is. And attempting to use this issue to win him another election! Howard MUST be defeated for the sake of Australia's international reputation, and I look forward to joining the fray when I return in early October. I highly doubt that the election will be held before then given recent opinion polling.
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