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...While Australian politicians often talk about "Asia," the region is neither monolithic nor stable. It was uncertainty in the region - including the 1995 collapse of the Keating Labor government's security agreement with Indonesia and the resulting debacle in East Timor - that helped convince Howard to reinvigorate the alliance in the late '90s. "At the end of the day," says Tow, "the U.S. relationship is so fundamental - what alternative does Australia have? Would China be the new great and powerful friend? It doesn't relate to anybody on those terms. Would ASEAN (the Association of South East Asian Nations...
...north, in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, local Julian MacLulich is waiting "with bated breath" to see how far Prime Minister John Howard and his rival Mark Latham are willing to go to save the forests he's heard much about. Though he likes the Howard government's economic record, MacLulich still hasn't decided who he'll vote for. When he does, he says, the fate of Tasmania's old-growth forests will be as important in his choice as the economy. He's waiting to be swayed. "Most people want to do the right thing, wherever...
...Howard has perhaps more room to move, says Monash University political commentator Nick Economou, with the Coalition holding none of the five House of Representatives seats in Tasmania. If he offers a package to save the forests, Economou believes, "he'll write Tasmania off." Labor, meanwhile, has the trickier task of satisfying traditional voter bases in seats like Braddon and also wooing mainlanders like MacLulich. But the momentum is there: some of the strongest applause from the party faithful at the Sept. 29 Labor campaign launch came for Latham's promise to detail a policy before the election. Party strategists...
...that Prime Minister Robert Menzies began sending a little public money the way of independent schools as one-off grants for new labs and libraries; in the 1970s Latham's mentor, Gough Whitlam, courting the Catholic vote, introduced recurrent funding to independent schools based on need. Without fanfare, the Howard government since 1996 has become an increasingly generous backer of private education, with a funding formula that pivots on the socioeconomic status of the students' district of residence and takes no account of a school's facilities or fees. Still, when funding from all levels of government is tallied, private...
...five years, while another 111 would have their grants frozen. The money saved - about $A520 million - would be redistributed to independent schools that charge relatively low fees. Also pledging $A1.9 billion for the public system over the same period, Latham said: "Labor has a very different approach to the Howard government: we fund schools on the basis of need." As a result, "every school in this country - government or non-government - will be a good school...