As Australia entered the new millennium, the nation was riding on a high from the major success of the Sydney Olympics.And over 200,000 people marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge, a gesture in support of reconciliation for First Nations Australians.
While the threat of global terrorism wasn’t yet on the radar, Cabinet papers reveal the then-second-term Howard Government was grappling for the threat of global warming. While the Howard Government mulled over the idea of an ETS, it wouldn’t adopt one until the 2007 election. “By the time we got to its actual implementation, I think we went to bed with a sort of resigned sense of we've done everything we can and this will probably be alright,” the Former Deputy Prime Minister said.The Howard Government was also dealing with domestic implications of global conflicts.
“The Committee agreed that Australia proceed to normalise diplomatic relations with the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea ,” a cabinet minute reads.In January 2000, a boat carrying 52 asylum seekers from the Maluku province in Indonesia was intercepted.
Only world that is changing sbs is the bullshit MSM PROPAGANDA.
Proof that the best years are behind this country......we pi**ed away years we should have leveraged off.
and 2000 dawned with the failure of the Republic Referendum which would have marked a step forward in our constitutional evolution, instead we got a dreary narrowing decade of John Howard and then his monarchist henchman Tony Abbott to entrench the mean and joyless straightening