Conservative Prime Minister John Howard suffered a humiliating defeat Saturday at the hands of the left-leaning opposition, whose leader has promised to immediately sign the Kyoto Protocol on global warming and withdraw Australia's combat troops from Iraq.
Labor Party head Kevin Rudd's pledges on global warming and Iraq move Australia sharply away from policies that had made Howard one of President Bush's staunchest allies.
Rudd has named global warming as his top priority, and his signing of the Kyoto Protocol will leave the U.S. as the only industrialized country not to have joined it.
I have friend heading back to her home in Australia in the very near future (after can she can unload her house), and I just e-mailed her to tell her how jealous I am that she gets to return to a brand new progressive government while I am stuck here with Bush.
If Australia wasn't in the middle of the biggest drought in history I might even consider pulling up roots and heading to the land down under.
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