Archive for the ‘australia’ Category

Australia election ousts Howard

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

The new Australian President promises to ratify the Kyoto protocol and withdraw some troops from Iraq.Read the full story

Petraeus Trial Balloon in Australia: Surge Working?

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

General Petraeus told The Australian during a face-to-face interview at his Baghdad headquarters there had been a 75 per cent reduction in religious and ethnic killings since last year, a doubling in the seizure of insurgents' weapons caches between January and August, a rise in the number of al-Qa'ida "kills ...