It goes to show you can't buy friends. Specially if you're only the 4th in line.

What nonsense. Australia gives aid to developing countries so they can improve the  health & education of those countries.

Although Tony Abbott has cut a few million of AusAid so there will be other countries affected gravely by that.

I wonder why Tony Abbot didn't sort out his issues with Indonesia BEFORE he announced his turn back the boat's policy. Surely that would have been the correct way to go about it.

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@acacia_pycnantha wrote:

I don't beleive that any country is another country's friend.

 

Countries act in their own national interest first, and and any "friendship" is only a ploy to advance such national interest.

 

Cynical? no, I'm a realist.

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We were the friend of the US in the terms that friend would mean being told what to do and accept free trade in return for joining an illegal war.

We were the Millhouse to Bart Simpson....

Last I checked your friends treat you with the same respect they would want from you, no bugging the Chancellor's mobile phone to help you with trade agreements within the EU.

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@spotweldersfriend wrote:
We weren't the Millhouse to Bart Simpson,topsidesoul,but we are the Smithers to Mr Burns.

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