Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> Australia is still a monarchy.
>
> I don't know enough about Indonesia, and the recent news were
> mostly biased towards showing Indonesia = Evil,
> East Timor = Good ...
Whoa there!
Hey, we are a democracy by any test - the Queen is an irrelevance outside the
tabloid news, and the government appointed Queen's representative has zero
power under normal circumstances (the Queen never ever personally has any
power). As for Indonesia, the idea is that corrupt enclave (read family)
running Indonesia is evil, warlords acting as minions of said enclave are evil
- Indonesia as a country is still in the process of shaking off that
corruption, but couldn't be described as evil over all. There are still
elections, and an emerging political process that goes beyond one-party.
Russell Chapman
Brisbane Australia
