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Burying the hatchet ... but where?

There is something not quite right when our wonderful politicians say that everything is fine and dandy and we've nothing to worry about.

Remember little Bobbie Hawke's pledge that by 1990 no Australian child would live in poverty? Hah!

What about Paulie Keating's tax cuts that are LAW. More like LORE. The fibbing swine...

And the pre-GST promise that no-one would be worse off. Well, with the price of scabies cream it's back to kero for this lad, I can tell you.

It's a terrible thing but I've seen just about every PM this nation has had and - with the exception of ... well, none - we have to face the truth that a politician's reality usually has more spin on it than a Shane Warne leggie.

That's why it gets even more disturbing when the Canberra clowns talk of Australia and Indonesia having buried the hatchet.

My question is: "Just whose back have the Indonesians buried it in?"

Call me harsh, senile or just cantankerous, but while Indonesians are lovely people - trusting their soldiers does push the envelope too much.

Weren't they responsible for butchering journalists during their invasion of East Timor in 1975?

Weren't they responsible for the countless thousands of Timorese who got shot or disappeared over the past 25 years?

Didn't they avert their eyes to the slaughter that when on after the Timorese voted for their freedom?

So, while our leaders may grovel politically at our neighbour's door they should keep in mind that people back here - even silly old buggas like me - have long memories that don't like matey handshakes and backslapping with Indonesian army types. In fact, it gives me the Bali Belly.

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