9.19.2005
Latham Backs NZ's Approach to US Relations (NZHerald.co.nz)
19.09.05 1.00pm
CANBERRA - Australia should follow the example of New Zealand, which had made itself the safest country on earth through distancing itself from the United States, former opposition leader Mark Latham said today.
Speaking ahead of the long-awaited launch of his diary today, Mr Latham said he reached the conclusion that Australia needed to renegotiate the alliance with the US after dining with then US Ambassador Thomas Schieffer, who he referred to in his diary as Brains ("Schieffer brains").
"We should have a look at how New Zealand has made itself the safest country in the world," he told ABC radio.
"There is no terrorist threat to New Zealand that has been identified but (there is) one here. If you go supporting bad American policy you make yourself a bigger target and you stir dissent in your own country," he said.
"If the Americans continues with Bush's policies they will never win the war against terror. They are bogged down in this for the rest of our lifetime.
(More ... New Zealand Herald - Latham backs NZ's approach to US relations - Monday 19, September 2005 11:23.00 AM - National News) ¶ 18:10
CANBERRA - Australia should follow the example of New Zealand, which had made itself the safest country on earth through distancing itself from the United States, former opposition leader Mark Latham said today.
Speaking ahead of the long-awaited launch of his diary today, Mr Latham said he reached the conclusion that Australia needed to renegotiate the alliance with the US after dining with then US Ambassador Thomas Schieffer, who he referred to in his diary as Brains ("Schieffer brains").
"We should have a look at how New Zealand has made itself the safest country in the world," he told ABC radio.
"There is no terrorist threat to New Zealand that has been identified but (there is) one here. If you go supporting bad American policy you make yourself a bigger target and you stir dissent in your own country," he said.
"If the Americans continues with Bush's policies they will never win the war against terror. They are bogged down in this for the rest of our lifetime.
(More ... New Zealand Herald - Latham backs NZ's approach to US relations - Monday 19, September 2005 11:23.00 AM - National News) ¶ 18:10
