Quite an apology.

It is to Australia's credit that we are criticised from the perspective of Indonesia's low standards.

An Indonesia still overly dominated by a military that distinguished itself with the 1965 Massacre of Chinese, from 1975 several massacres in East Timor including murdering 5 Australians in Balibo, then the Dili Massacre, more lately the Indonesia Army torturing West Papuans to death. An Indonesia safe for the discredited KOPASSUS*.

An Indonesia ruled by an ex General who has turned people smuggling into a business to extract bribes for many civilian officials and protection money for the Indonesian Navy.

Australia is truly honoured to be better than this.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopassus#Human_rights_issues

Bruce, take your ideology out, lock it in your bottom draw, nail that draw shut for ever, then try this piece again.

Surely you have noticed from the election, spin no longer does it mate. Ozzies have caught on to spin. They now turn off, & don't bother to read further.

If you want your pieces read, & why bother writing them if you don't, you'll have to get closer to the facts. Spin is dead & gone. Hell even us simple peasants can see results, & understand what is working. Can you?

I am amazed at Bruce's uncanny insight into the minds of the Indonesian administration. Judging by their public statements, he must know things that even they do not.

Bruce
Kevvy was the China expert and he stuffed that relationship, Gillard was a novice and stuffed our relationships with pretty well all our near neighbours, Carr was the US expert and bumbled about in that relationship.

And you criticise Abbott for ... what was it?

Lol you really have turned comedian.

Well people, we're now copping the fall-out of the ALP's Peter Principal.

Rhrosty wrote
"I'm not an Abbott fan, however, he's only been in the job 5 minutes, give the bloke a fair go!"

What like he gave Gillard? Like he gave Oakshott and Windsor?
Give me a break.
If he hadnt been such a viper from day one of the 2010 election outcome then maybe he might have deserved a bit of leeway but he started the negative gutter politics and he will die by it.