Click to Download - The Sydney Institute Greg Sheridan on The Partnership The Inside Story of the US Australia Relationship.mp3 (44.6 MB)
Author GREG SHERIDAN, longstanding Foreign Editor at The Australian newspaper, discusses his recent book The Partnership and, among other things, the history of the Australia-United States relationship, international terrorism and the Australian military.
The Partnership is an explosive behind-the-scenes look at the intimate alliance between John Howard and George W Bush. The book discloses never before published confidential conversations of leaders on both sides of the Pacific to uncover government strategies in the war on terror, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Greg Sheridan, Tuesday 12 September, 2006
"The War on Terror is not a metaphor. There are groups of people out there, very sophisticated, smart, morally autonomous, grown up adult human beings in al-Qu'ida and associated groups who are out to destroy western societies and the values that we stand for."
"The danger for the future in my view, the only danger to the alliance, lies in the anti-Americanism, the visceral, atavistic anti-Americanism of so many of our media and artistic elites in Australia, especially our academic elites and civil liberties class."