Topic: "Australian Defence Spending Puts Canada to Shame"

[RDBZ]

If I was the average Australian, I wouldn't be to crazy about them moving in.

Darwin and the Top End have their unique charms, but places that attract genteel and refined folk they definitely are not.  If there was a city into which 2,000 marines could move in largely unnoticed, Darwin would be it.  For those down South, still uneasy about the growing economic influence of China,  and whose perspective on our closest neighbour is still shaped by memories of RAAF aircraft bringing home the dead and injured from the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, the events in East Timor in 1999, and the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, the arrival of 2,000 marines definitely has an up side.

[Get Nautical]

Darwin and the Top End have their unique charms, but places that attract genteel and refined folk they definitely are not.  If there was a city into which 2,000 marines could move in largely unnoticed, Darwin would be it.  For those down South, still uneasy about the growing economic influence of China,  and whose perspective on our closest neighbour is still shaped by memories of RAAF aircraft bringing home the dead and injured from the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, the events in East Timor in 1999, and the 2004 bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, the arrival of 2,000 marines definitely has an up side.

http://www.gendercide.org/case_timor.html
http://1999horrorsofeasttimor.blogspot.com/2009/01/conflict-in-east-timor-genocide-or.html
It wasnt just 1999, it just took that long for something to be done about it...disgusting.