I barely know anything about the country – I'm not sure what the official language is, I couldn't name its leader, and I even once, erroneously, referred to New Zealand on this blog as "Australia's closest neighbour". Which it's not. That'll be PNG.
I'm not saying everyone should jump on a plane to Port Moresby tomorrow. I just think it's interesting that we know so little about those that live closest to us.
This was reinforced last week when the US president, Barack Obama, stormed into Australia and started talking about "securing the region" with a new influx of his nation's troops. That strike anyone else as strange?
I'm pretty sure the reaction would have been different if Indonesia had announced something similar. More
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