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Young Australians question Hillary Clinton with a kind of self-censorship

Even closer military and political ties mark the latest hotting up of an old but seriously unequal love story…….Throughout, no one challenged Clinton on the purpose or impact of her nation’s  unprecedented global power. It beggars belief that your average room of youngish university folk wouldn’t contain at least some who were capable and willing of sterner stuff

Questions Hillary wasn’t asked on her date with Australia, Sydney Morning Herald, Hamish Ford, November 10, 2010 If you thought we were already ”all the way” with the USA, it seems the object of our long-distance affection was previously just flirting at the bar.

With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit as the star of yet another taxpayer-funded US-Australian political chat-fest (what does AUSMIN and the like actually talk about, I wonder, considering the outcome is always the same press conferences and head-nodding talk about shared values?), we were told by glowing politicians and not a few prominent media types that the ”special relationship” was getting more special still. Even closer military and political ties mark the latest hotting up of an old but seriously unequal love story.
Even so, Clinton may have thought she would get at least a couple of curly questions at the University of Melbourne in a forum screened by the ABC on Sunday night. In the event she may have been both delighted with the result and, if truly believing in much-ballyhooed values such as freedom of expression and debate, perhaps secretly a little disquietened too….
it was all smiles and light-hearted chat from forum moderator ABC TV’s Leigh Sales and the audience, requests for her wise council on the future of the world (apparently a key figure in the leadership of its greatest power can also offer detached crystal ball-wielding analyst), advice on how to handle a political marriage, and a long answer-including question from Sales about what Clinton and Barack Obama talk about in their ”down time”.
Throughout, no one challenged Clinton on the purpose or impact of her nation’s  unprecedented global power. It beggars belief that your average room of youngish university folk wouldn’t contain at least some who were capable and willing of sterner stuff

Hillary Clinton’s visit to Australia

November 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear weapons