When 'BIG head Howard' speak up
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Truely Aussie also will speak like this. We're too big head... Thats nice to make "BIG Aussie head" curry mamak...
Australia won't beg for invite: PM
Australia should be invited to the inaugural East Asia summit but would not be knocking on doors "begging admission", Prime Minister John Howard has said.
Australian hopes of attending the summit suffered a setback on Thursday when visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi refused to endorse Canberra's participation.
Mr Howard said he had not expected an invitation and it was a matter for the foreign ministers of ASEAN countries to decide whether or not to ask Australia to attend.
"We would be very happy to participate but we are not knocking on doors begging admission," he told 3AW Radio.
"We don't need to do that. Australia is a strong, respected, involved country in the region and that will be the case whether or not we are at the summit."
Mr Howard's refusal to sign ASEAN's non-aggression pact has drawn comment from South East Asian leaders in the past but Mr Howard said he did not discuss it with Mr Abdullah on Thursday.
Mr Howard said he stood by his stance Australia reserved the right to take military action in other countries if it was under threat.
"It is very much a situation, very unlikely to arise, where if we thought that this country was going to be attacked and the source country were not willing to do anything about it then we would have a right to defend ourselves," he said.
But Mr Howard said in practical terms the situation would never arise with countries like Malaysia, which had close defence ties to Australia.
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Truely Aussie also will speak like this. We're too big head... Thats nice to make "BIG Aussie head" curry mamak...
Australia won't beg for invite: PM
Australia should be invited to the inaugural East Asia summit but would not be knocking on doors "begging admission", Prime Minister John Howard has said.
Australian hopes of attending the summit suffered a setback on Thursday when visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi refused to endorse Canberra's participation.
Mr Howard said he had not expected an invitation and it was a matter for the foreign ministers of ASEAN countries to decide whether or not to ask Australia to attend.
"We would be very happy to participate but we are not knocking on doors begging admission," he told 3AW Radio.
"We don't need to do that. Australia is a strong, respected, involved country in the region and that will be the case whether or not we are at the summit."
Mr Howard's refusal to sign ASEAN's non-aggression pact has drawn comment from South East Asian leaders in the past but Mr Howard said he did not discuss it with Mr Abdullah on Thursday.
Mr Howard said he stood by his stance Australia reserved the right to take military action in other countries if it was under threat.
"It is very much a situation, very unlikely to arise, where if we thought that this country was going to be attacked and the source country were not willing to do anything about it then we would have a right to defend ourselves," he said.
But Mr Howard said in practical terms the situation would never arise with countries like Malaysia, which had close defence ties to Australia.
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