http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/29/west-papuan-unrest-as-australia-supports-indonesias-military/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:14:13 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/29/west-papuan-unrest-as-australia-supports-indonesias-military/#comment-25400 Colin Jones Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-25400 West Papua/ East Timor. Hasn't Fitzgibbon read the history?Here we go again spreading our legs for the Indonesians. We are a joke as a country. West Papua/ East Timor. Hasn’t Fitzgibbon read the history?Here we go again spreading our legs for the Indonesians. We are a joke as a country.

]]> http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/29/west-papuan-unrest-as-australia-supports-indonesias-military/#comment-25401 Lisa Crago Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-25401 Terrible misleading statment that "after decades of difficulties, there are no longer major outstanding issues between Australia and Indonesia" ... simply because the ADF millitary interacts with the Indonesian military ; narrow and ill informed. International human rights advocates make very poor military commentators as they are usually not across the relevant facts.<br />Australia's ADF core, people with the guns & tanks number approx 30 000.<br />The Indonesian armed forces catering core is approx 60 000 , yes, thats how many people they need to feed their forces. They have 60000 cooks! So While " Mr Fitzgibbon has been cuddling up to Indonesia’s defence minister" in what can only geopolitically be identified as very important major millitary bilateral cooperation, with the worlds most populated Muslem neighbour. Maybe we can lay off the sort of narrow and ill informed rot that cites our wish for a strong bilatteral agreement on defence and intelligence information as "a compulsive fetish gone horribly wrong." <br /> Terrible misleading statment that “after decades of difficulties, there are no longer major outstanding issues between Australia and Indonesia” … simply because the ADF millitary interacts with the Indonesian military ; narrow and ill informed. International human rights advocates make very poor military commentators as they are usually not across the relevant facts.
Australia’s ADF core, people with the guns & tanks number approx 30 000.
The Indonesian armed forces catering core is approx 60 000 , yes, thats how many people they need to feed their forces. They have 60000 cooks! So While ” Mr Fitzgibbon has been cuddling up to Indonesia’s defence minister” in what can only geopolitically be identified as very important major millitary bilateral cooperation, with the worlds most populated Muslem neighbour. Maybe we can lay off the sort of narrow and ill informed rot that cites our wish for a strong bilatteral agreement on defence and intelligence information as “a compulsive fetish gone horribly wrong.”

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