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Nicole Kidman married one, Greg Norman sounds like one, and Rupert Murdoch is one. Never have Americans exerted such an all pervading influence on the daily lives of Australians, from the moment they eat their American owned Vegemite in the morning till they switch off CNN at night. Never have Australians had more reason to feel like the 51st state of the union. It might have started as a strategic necessity- small nations need powerful friends but surely John Curtin could not have foreseen the stranglehold America would one day exercise when he made the wartime declaration: "without inhibitions of any kind, I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kindred to the United Kingdom." Nowadays what Hollywood films, Australia watches What Madison Avenue sells, Australia buys When Wall Street sneezes, Australia catches Pneumonia So does much of the rest of the world. But not every country is so receptive to cues from the white house- notably Germany and France in the most recent crisis over whether to bomb Baghdad. When the pentagon goes to war Australia invariably follows. Defence ties always paramount in the relationship; have depended to the point where Australia seems shackled for good with its "US deputy sheriff” tag in Asia.
Approximate Word count = 836
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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