Word: beazley
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...want modern Labor to stand up and fight for our policy beliefs and the machine men, with their over-reliance on polls, spin doctors, the daily media cycle and a command-and-control style of politics." Third Way. "The taxi driver was trying to steal my property, and Kim Beazley's trying to steal the Labor leadership off Simon Crean - and I'm happy to tackle them both...
...blonde, spirited Member for Fowler, Julia Irwin, tries to lift the mood with an address in which she lauds her leader as someone "who never stands behind people, nor in front of them - he stands side by side with them." She gets a cheer, but former Labor leader Kim Beazley draws groans while being interviewed on the screen, when he argues that the result is better than some internal polls had forecast; he even manages to squeeze in the word "terrific...
...about 340 of the 920 Australian troops still in or near Iraq - and his attitude to the ANZUS pact, which lost its N.Z. component in 1985. "We believe in the value of the alliance," Latham said. "We support the U.S. alliance 100%." To underscore the message, he named Kim Beazley - a former Defence Minister credited with holding the alliance together after New Zealand's exit - as Labor's defense spokesman, and yielded the microphone on foreign affairs to Kevin Rudd, a centrist well known and respected in Washington. "The calculation of the political hardheads in the party is that...
...Labor, Iraq is too far from home. "The defense of Australia is the top priority for an Australian government," Beazley says. That involves "self reliance within the context of the alliance." To strategy analyst Dupont, "self-reliance sounds like we would basically do everything ourselves and if the Americans assist us, well and good, but we won't assume they will." In practice, he says, independence is impossible. Since the late 1990s, when the Howard government began revamping the military for the 21st century, Australian and U.S. forces have become increasingly interdependent, sharing intelligence, training, weaponry, technology and communications systems...
...Labor thought it had the election in its pocket. Kim Beazley did not release the bulk of his policies until the official campaign. This approach, which has become known as the "small-target" strategy, had worked before. It is identical to the one that Howard employed in 1996 to win office. But after almost six years, voters did not know what alternative leader Beazley stood for. Latham once vowed never to adopt such a negative ploy. Yet, here he is, with under 40 days to articulate and sell an integrated platform to a public that is, at best, merely curious...