What should President Obama see and do while in Australia?
Leave your suggestions in the comments below. “President Obama will be a most welcome guest in Australia on his first official visit,” a statement from Mr Rudd’s office said this morning. “Australia’s relationship with the United States of America is our most important international partnership. “We are allies, we are trading partners, and we cooperate on the international challenges confronting all nations,” the statement said. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of formal diplomatic relations between Australia and the United States. “Our formal military alliance, the ANZUS Treaty, has been in force for nearly 60 years. “The president’s visit will underline the strength and breadth of the relationship,” the statement said. Mr Obama spent part of his childhood in the Indonesian capital Jakarta in the late 1960s, after his divorced mother married an Indonesian. The childhood connection and his knowledge of a few words of the Indonesian language have made him hugely
