The tile of the original post should, perhaps, have been “Do ozzies kiss ass or what?”.
Well John Howard certainly kisses Bush’s arse.
The bushfire in Canberra wont be anywhere near as bad as the GW Bushfire in Iraq.
ps hope our friends in ACT (eg Agback) survived the holocaust OK
Dang, Nogginhead beat me to it. I thought he was talking about us, too, for a minute. 
Yeah, but I forgot to put something in there about the proportion of eligible voters who actually voted for His Accidency, the Supreme Choice,