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	Alexander Downer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Downer was born in Adelaide, South Australia, into one of the state's oldest families.
		Downer was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Radley College and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Britain.
		When the Liberals unexpectedly lost the 1993 elections to Paul Keating, Downer began to be talked of as a possible leader, and in May 1994 he succeeded Dr John Hewson as leader of the Liberal party after defeating him in a leadership ballot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Downer (660 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Alexander Downer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says Labor's position is 'chaos' and undermines the credibility of Mark La...
		Alexander is related to many high-profile Australians including Julian Paul Gregson and Premier of New South Wales Bob Carr.
		He was greatly helped by the changed international situation after the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, which caused a majority of Australians to support the Howard Government's policy of close alliance with the US and support for the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Alexander_Downer (728 words)

	Downer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Downer, a former Premier of South Australia and member of the inaugural Australian Senate
		Alexander Downer, John Downer's grandson and the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
		Downer (song) a song by the grunge band Nirvana on their debut album Bleach
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Downer (153 words)

	Downer's guiding principles - Opinion - www.theage.com.au
		Downer is a supporter of the UN but he does not see it as a panacea.
		Downer is acutely aware of Australia's responsibilities in the Pacific.
		Downer rejects Francis Fukuyama's thesis that we are at the "end of history" where the liberal democratic ideal is triumphant.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Opinion/Downers-guiding-principles/2004/12/20/1103391697953.html (891 words)

	Alexander Downer: "Extremist Islam Holds Little Appeal" - Middle East Quarterly - Fall 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Downer: At the 59th session of the U.N. General Assembly, Australia showed its concern at the high level of United Nations secretariat resources devoted to anti-Israeli activity, such as the Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat and the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People.
		Downer: Australia is committed to strengthening multilateral nonproliferation treaties in response to some states' failure to comply with their obligations.
		Downer: The decision earlier this year to send the Al-Muthanna[9] Task Group to Iraq is a further sign of Australia's commitment to the people of Iraq.
	www.meforum.org /article/779 (2478 words)

	Alexander Downer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Downer was born in Adelaide Adelaide quick summary:
		John downer (1843-1915) was the premier of south australia from 16 june 1885 until 11 june 1887....
		Downer was educated at an exclusive Adelaide school and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne University of Newcastle upon Tyne quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alexander_downer.htm (1002 words)

	Timor Sea Office - July 2004 press
		Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said there was no point in continuing with scheduled talks in September if Labor had withdrawn from its bipartisan support for the government's negotiations.
		Downer said in a television interview there would be no point in going ahead with talks, If Labor plans to restart the negotiations after the election.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well, we had bipartisan support for Australia's negotiating position up until last week, when Mr Latham suddenly and rather unexpectedly came out and said that Labor would restart the negotiations with the East Timorese, and it would recommence the negotiations with the East Timorese if Labor were to win the election.
	www.timorseaoffice.gov.tp /july04press4.htm (1650 words)

	Politics - Alexander Downer
		Alexander Downer: Well, first of all, overall, I think what the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, has said in relation to withdrawal from Gaza is an extremely important development, and I would urge Palestinians to capitalise on that unilateral step forward by the Israelis.
		Alexander Downer: Well, I suppose he represents somebody who has now been charged with being associated with a terrorist organisation, and he will go out and make a defence as best he can in those circumstances.
		Alexander Downer: Well, he has been arrested and charged, as you know, so there obviously is information in relation to him.
	seven.com.au /sundaysunrise/politics_040418_downer (1666 words)

	Letter from Ramos-Horta: response to Alexander Downer
		Downer well knows the dispute between Timor-Leste and Australia is not a question of ceding territory, but of setting maritime boundaries for the first time.
		Downer knows, Timor-Leste's legal position is supported by the overwhelming majority of international legal academics, including members of his own department.
		Contrary to Mr Downer's amusing rhetoric, Timor-Leste is not seeking to annex Australian `territory' on the basis that it is poor.
	www.etan.org /et2004/july/22/05letter.htm (969 words)

	Timor Sea Office - press - July 2004
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: The vast majority of the Australian people don't appreciate the abuse that's been meted out at Australia after all we've done for East Timor, and I don't think it's a tactic that will work, and I've explained that to the East Timorese, that it's not a wise tactic.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: The East Timorese have made the judgment that they think a sort of high campaign of rhetoric is gonna help their cause.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: No, Australia has been a proud and independent country for a very long time, and we're able to look after our own negotiations as we did with the Papua New Guineans, as we did with the New Zealanders themselves, and we can do all of that ourselves.
	www.timorseaoffice.gov.tp /july04press6.htm (2032 words)

	Alexander Downer
		Alexander Downer is a Liberal member of Australian Parliament.
		Downer was elected to Parliament in 1984, representing Mayo, a safely Liberal district of suburban Adelaide.
		By most accounts, Downer was considered something of a bumbler as Foreign Minister until the terrorist attack on America in September 2001.
	www.nndb.com /people/674/000055509 (361 words)

	Paras Indonesia - Where Democratic Minds Meet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Downer, on the other hand, was somewhat more upset by the cartoon controversy, at least officially, and quickly issued a statement condemning the canine depiction of Yudhoyono as tasteless, offensive and without merit.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: No, it doesn't surprise me. I mean, obviously this decision to grant the 42 Papuan asylum seekers protection visas was going to cause a lot of sensitivity in Indonesia, and it clearly has done.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well we've been - I'm not sure about a specific invitation, they may or may not have, but they certainly have not supported the Proliferation Security Initiative, so if we gave them an invitation we wouldn't have expected a very positive reply unless they changed their policy on the PSI.
	www.laksamana.net /news_read.php?gid=157 (4788 words)

	Transcript: Alexander Downer interview
		Alexander Downer: Well we know of one 16 year old Australian who's tragically been killed, but we're also very gravely concerned about two others.
		Alexander Downer: There's a consulate, an Australian consulate in Bali, but there were also by coincidence some Australian embassy staff from Jakarta in Bali at the same time, so all of those staff - I can't tell you the exact number but it's quite a few - are assisting.
		Downer, I know a flight leaves from Sydney this morning, another one later this afternoon; tourists are still heading up to Bali with obviously plans they made some time ago.
	seven.com.au /sunrise/transcript_051002_downer (881 words)

	Jalal Talabani and Alexander Downer: News Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well I think it’s a little sad really, when somebody goes before a Parliamentary Committee with parliamentary privilege and makes a whole lot of allegations of that kind without a scintilla of evidence.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well he disagreed with the Australian government’s policy of taking the action we took to join the coalition of the willing to liberate Iraq.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: I’m not a cheerleader of exaggeration, but I’m a cheerleader of freedom, and I’m enormously proud of the role we played in liberating the people of Iraq.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=4232 (2135 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Alexander Downer Recieves Peaceful Message
		Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s electorate in Adelaide received a visit from over a hundred Falun Gong practitioners, attempting to raise awareness among his contingents regarding the controversial restriction of the peaceful appeal outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra.
		Downer’s Adelaide office, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja issued a statement saying “the decision of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from holding banners in front of the Chinese Embassy for the past three years is indefensible and the Democrats strongly oppose it.”
		Downer’s seat of Mayo many wore t-shirts with the words “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” the main tenets of the meditation group.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-3-29/27424.html (283 words)

	Online NewsHour: Readying the Troops -- September 15, 1999
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well, the details of the rules of engagement are being worked out, and so that is a matter that the military are working on at this moment.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well, of course, the multinational force is driven by the resolution passed by the Security Council early this morning.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well, it's not the main charter of the mission, and obviously it's very difficult to sort of set up a kind of forensic policing role of that kind for a military mission.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/july-dec99/timor_9-15.html (1926 words)

	Interview: Alexander Downer
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: Well obviously I dearly hope they won't have to, because as Jana was saying in the introduction that would be very dramatic for them.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: And this is a new institution, so we don't have a great deal of information.
		ALEXANDER DOWNER: The worst thing Australian - the Australian Government, or Australians generally can do, is to accede to the demands of these sorts of terrorist organisations.
	sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/political_transcripts/article_1607.asp (2418 words)

	CANBERRA OBSERVED: Alexander Downer - a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack? - 4 June 2005
		Mr Downer's speech was clearly political and not the work of a dispassionate historian; but it was also assiduously researched, well-crafted and designed as a circuit-breaker to permit for the first time a more critical view of Curtin.
		Mr Downer's unstated message is that he, unlike Costello, is solid, has deep conservative roots, and is prepared to take on Labor on its own turf, particularly on the question of history and the culture wars.
		Downer's none-too-subtle message is that, if Costello himself fails to reach the finishing post, and if Abbott's political credibility is shot, then the party will have to turn to other possibilities.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2005jun04_co.html (852 words)

	The Advertiser: Downer's star on the rise again [08mar06] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		ALEXANDER Downer quit as Opposition leader in early 1995 after a humiliating stint leading the Liberal Party.
		For his part, Mr Downer is officially dousing any such speculation, expressing a lack of enthusiasm for a return to the Liberal leadership.
		We owe firstly to Alexander an expression of gratitude for the grace and dignity with which, early in 1995, he facilitated a change in the leadership of the party, which he judged was in the party's interests," Mr Howard said.
	www.theadvertiser.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,18382184^26177,00.html (634 words)

	Vision for a Nation: Federation Week - An Australian Mosaid
		Alexander Downer was born in 1951 and was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Radley College Oxford, and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
		Before entering Federal Parliament, Mr Downer held positions as an Economist with the Bank of New South Walkes, as a Diplomat, as a Political Adviser to Malcolm Fraser and to Andrew Peacock and an the Executive Director of the Australian Chamber of Commerce.
		Mr Downer is married with three daughters and one son.
	www.unisa.edu.au /Hawke/events/2001events/downer.asp (720 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Australia urges UN role in Iraq
		Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has said the post-war US military administration in Iraq should be as brief as possible.
		Mr Downer, speaking before his departure on Monday for talks in Washington on the war, said that Australian troops would not stay in Iraq after the conflict has ended.
		Mr Downer left Canberra on Monday for briefings in Washington on the progress of the conflict in Iraq, including its humanitarian aspects.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2902285.stm (397 words)

	CNN.com - Egypt bus crash kills six tourists - Jan 11, 2006
		Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in Sydney on Wednesday he could confirm the number of dead and injured in the bus crash, and that one of the dead was a child.
		Downer said a group of about 90 Australian police and emergency workers and their families were on holidays in Egypt, traveling on two buses, when one bus crashed.
		Downer said the group members were from the Australian states of Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory.
	cnn.com /rssclick/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/01/11/egypt.crash/?... (257 words)

	Crikey Website - Alexander Downer's history lesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Downer still entertains hopes of returning to a leadership role in the Liberal Party and his speech to the Earle Page College's Annual Politics Dinner clearly shows that he considers himself a major player – fit to make the big speeches.
		Downer was thinking Churchill – and not just in his attacks on appeasement.
		Rudd knows what was behind Downer's speech: “The reality is Downer is driven by the political ambition to become treasurer and deputy leader of the Liberal Party as soon as possible.
	www.crikey.com.au /articles/2005/05/19-1550-1859.html (1042 words)

	Remarks With Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
		It's her first visit as the Secretary of State though she was here not that long ago with President Bush when he was last in Australia.
		FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNER: Even though the United States is not in the Commonwealth for all sorts of obvious historic reasons.
		I think the issue of whether or not one decides to participate in fuel supply is a quite separable issue and it's one for the Australians to determine but not one that is at issue with the United States by any means.
	www.state.gov /secretary/rm/2006/63167.htm (2290 words)

	Sun.Star Davao - Maxey: Alexander Downer is a 'downer' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Galicia was reacting to Malacañang's having filed a diplomatic protest against Australia after its foreign minister, Alexander Downer, likened the Philippines to a "marshmallow" for pulling out its humanitarian contingent from Iraq after Iraq abductors threatened to behead their Filipino hostage, Angelo de la Cruz, unless its demand for the withdrawal was met.
		The Philippines had asked that Downer apologize for his uncalled-for remark, an apology that was not forthcoming.
		Downer has been eating too many kangaroo steaks, he is beginning to sound like a kangaroo himself.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/dav/2004/07/31/oped/ram.maxey.bar.none.html (378 words)

	Joint Press Conference - AUSMIN 2005
		Alexander gave you a good set of the scope of issues, but for me it always gives me a good opportunity to listen and to learn, because Australia's got some pretty unique vantage points from its expertise in the region, from which we benefit.
		DOWNER: Well, I think, that from Australia's point of view the real issue here is that the Iraqi security forces are able to, as you put it, contain the insurgency and are able to take responsibility for the security of the country.
		DOWNER: We've always just made the point that it's an entirely hypothetical situation, and in foreign policy, you definitely don't destroy your relations with great swathes of the world by speculating that you're on a threshold of going to war with other countries when you're not.
	melbourne.usconsulate.gov /ausmin/2005_1118_jpc.html (4019 words)

	Australia bombs impounded N.Korean drug ship - Boston.com
		Two Australian fighter jets bombed and sank the impounded North Korean cargo ship on Thursday in what Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said was a strong message to Pyonyang about its involvement in drug running.
		Downer said the heroin, worth about A$160 million ($115 million), would have provided four million hits of heroin on Australian streets.
		Downer said Australia was determined to publicly sink the ship as a message to North Korea and other countries that they must make sure they do not support drug trafficking.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2006/03/23/australia_bombs_impounded_n_korean_drug_ship (494 words)

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