The enduring image of APEC will be the Saturday night footage of 21 heads of government in their colour-coded Drizabones, waving sheepishly with one hand while trying to conceal their unwanted Akubras with the other. It was a picture fraught with embarrassment, and so it should have been, writes Mungo MacCallum.
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Howard’s NT rescue plan is in serious trouble
When John Howard announced his Northern Territory Aboriginal rescue plan less than two weeks ago he believed he was on an election winner. But already this misconceived, ill-advised, policy-on-the-run project is in serious trouble.
