From Asia Times Online
''When the first contingent of 250 US
Marines flew into Darwin last April, they were
greeted on the tarmac with a personal handshake by
Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith and
welcomed to the city by the chief minister of the
Northern Territory (NT), Paul Henderson. Both men
are members of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
When the Marines' rotation finished in
August, US Ambassador Jeffery L Bleitch and the
Commandant of US Marines, General James Amos, came
to Darwin to do a PR jig and celebrate its success
- a success measured, it seems, as the absence of
riots and major crime. But there was another
notable absence: crowing ALP politicians.''
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