Vidal is a lonely genius, Carr says
Tony Jones talks to Gore Vidal about his new book Inventing a Nation and why the forward was penned by New South Wales Premier Bob Carr. Mr Carr paints him as a committed isolationist who believes that projecting American power will always make a situation worse.
In tonight's Four Corners program a veteran of Australia's intelligence services said that after interrogating an Iraqi prisoner and witnessing abuse last year while working with the Iraq Survey Group he informed the Department of Defence. Weeks later Senator Robert Hill told Parliament no Australians had been involved in the interrogation of Iraqi prisoners.
The Australian Government has admitted it has not asked and America has not said why it released alleged Al Qaeda trainee Mamdouh Habib after three years in detention. The Federal Government has sent copies of Mr Habib's televised claims of torture to Washington for further examination.
The votes are in and Iraq's political players have begun negotiating for democratic power. Results announced overnight show the Islamic Shiite group took the biggest share of the popular vote.
Singapore and Australia today reopened talks on a full open skies agreement that would deliver Singapore Airlines much greater access to the trans-Pacific market. Qantas is resisting the move, but Singapore insists it is in the best interests of passengers.
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