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legin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 07:48 PM
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Australia plans to police South Pacific
Australia stepped up its growing involvement in the security of its neighbours yesterday by announcing the creation of a new pan-Pacific police college.

At the annual Pacific Islands Forum in Auckland, John Howard, the Australian prime minister, said the college, to be set up in Fiji, would produce 200 officers a year to police the small island states of the region. He has described some of them as "unviable".

The initiative reflects Canberra's growing willingness to flex its muscles in the region amid increasing concerns that without proper policing, its South Pacific backyard could become lawless

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/08/15/wpacif15.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/08/15/ixworld.html

australia's payment for joining the war on terrorism, given south east asia to be a regional superpower to.
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legin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 07:51 PM
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1. Sorry rooboy
australia's capital letter deducted, I've been thinking about it for a while now and this is the final straw. ;)
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-03 12:28 AM
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3. John Howard and his minions...
with their tiny little dicks playing as if they were important people again. Nothing new.
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snake1306 Donating Member (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 08:44 PM
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2. Australia wouldn't even
have to worry about terrorism if they didn't join W's "War on Terrah."
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