[Marxism] Re: Australian troops back in East Timor

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TH's excerpts from the Community Consultation Team: We gained a strong sense 
that in these circumstances the majority of the public viewed increased 
investment 
in our military capabilities as a prudent insurance measure. This contrasts 
sharply 
with the views of some academic and bureaucratic commentators. 

CF: Fredman will no doubt reply if he feels the need but the CCT has been 
bagged at 
length in Australia. An excerpt:

"Well 2,000 people attended 28 public meetings ? that?s an average of 71 people 
at 
each meeting ? hardly a representative sample of the population. Just what kind 
of 
Australian would hurry along to a public gathering being chaired by The Hon. 
Andrew 
Peacock with Dr David MacGibbon, Mr. Stephen Loosley and Major General Adrian 
Clunies-Ross (Retd) side-by-side? One would suspect that this is not a group of 
chaps 
particularly skilled at creating an environment conducive to lively debate 
amongst a 
group of equals."

http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2000/12/carson.html

See also Graeme Cheeseman's take on the CCT:

"Consulting the Public on Defence: Evaluating the Howard Government's 
Community Consultation Program" (Canberra: ADSC Working Paper No. 61, 
ADFA, November 2000) (co-authored with Hugh Smith)

"Choosing to make Choices"
Australian Defence Force Journal, No. 143, July/August 2000, pp. 25-6.

"Forward march in the Name of the People"
Sydney Morning Herald, (with Hugh Smith)

"Defence review 2000: Public Consultation or Public education?"
The Drawing Board, July 2000, http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/

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