From John Pasquarelli
Labor Senator Conroy claimed in Foreign Affairs Estimates Thursday Feb 24, 2011, that "Indonesia is our closest neighbour".
Papua New Guinea, of course, is Australia's closest neighbour (4km away at the narrowest point compared to closest point between Australian territory and Indonesia – 500km).
Is Labor unaware of the existence of PNG?
He is simply dumb.
ReplyDeletePasquarelli geographically challenged - yes PNG is Australia's closest neighbour, but the closest point of Australian territory (Deliverance Island) to Indonesia (at the mouth of the Bensbach River) is 75km, not 500.
ReplyDeleteI was simply quoting the good Labor Senator
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