“We ca
ot have a situation around the world and particularly in our region where Australia is told to respect the independence of a country and that it’s a bully boy if it seeks to express a view or to intervene, but when something goes wrong Australia is then criticised for not having, quote, intervened earlier,” Mr Howard said.
Well, thanks very much for being a strong supporter of Timor independence. Yes, it’s your mess, now you clean it up. It’s only right if the Indo government doesn’t seem to pay attention to this situation, yep got a more important disaster to take care of.