LA Times reporter. Scathing!! The adolescent country. The bit player. The shrimp of the schoolyard. For Australians its not so bad -- most of the time -- to be so far away, so overlooked, so seemingly insignificant as to almost never factor in major international news. The lifestyle makes up for it. But occasionally, theres an awkward, pimply youth moment so embarrassing that it does sting. Like when 19 of the worlds most important leaders visit for a global summit and Prime Minister Tony Abbott opens their retreat Saturday with a whinge (Aussie for whine) about his doomed efforts to get his fellow Australians to pay $7 to see a doctor. And then he throws in a boast that his government repealed the countrys carbon tax, standing out among Western nations as the one willing to reverse progress on climate change -- just days after the United States and China reached a landmark climate change deal. m.arcamax/currentnews/newsheadlines/s-1586058-p1
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 04:36:05 +0000
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