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class=712471011-15112005>Australians recognise as their national public holiday
a day called Anzac Day, where some thousands of young Australians in 1914, at
the behest of their colonial masters the British, ran headlong into Turkish
bullet fire at a place called Gallipoli. Thousands died in a futile and poorly
planned manoeuvre. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=712471011-15112005>This spirit of Anzac - doing stupid things at the
behest of powerful friends - has remained a prized national
characteristic.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=712471011-15112005>So don't be surprised at the Australian role today.
It's ingrained, very typical of Australian politics in a range of
areas.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=712471011-15112005>I hope common sense prevails
nevertheless.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=712471011-15112005>(for those following less closely, Australia seemed
happy today to threaten consensus despite the Chair's pleadings, when the US and
Algeria appeared to be ready to drop a host of square bracketed areas of text
including the basic forum proposal. Australia was happy to block all of this
progress by insisting on insertion of some innocuous wording rejected
yesterday).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Ian Peter<SPAN
class=712471011-15112005> (I'll still support the Australian cricket team
though)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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