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Labor's problem was that while it did spend on defence (as a percentage of GDP in the late 80s/early 90s they actually spent more than the current government) they also saw defence spending as an industry development tool.  So there was always a tension between outcomes for defence, and outcomes...

Maybe, but being in opposition and not government gives you greater freadom.

To all the Aussies on this board: do you think the results of the last Federal election, and recent events in the Solomons and Timor confirm the core arguments and perspectives put forward in this article?

Ditto

My point was that they are, as you say, "given the chance to return".  By contrast the inmates of "concentration camps", in the contemporary sense of the word, are not given the choice, for example:  Jews in Nazi Germany's extermination camps, woman in rape camps during the Bosnian civil war, or...

ROB, you are hiding behind a missapplied and archaic definition of "concentration camp" that bears no resemblance to the contemporary meaning of the word.  You know that.  By your "interpretation" of the word, schools, and infectious deseases wards of hosptials are concentration camps.  You...