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Bogans in Brooklyn Highlight

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The year 2003 wasn’t just when an Australian beachhead was established in downtown Manhattan, though. It was also when the United States invaded Iraq. The war was not popular with many of our allies, like the French, who had their heads screwed on right for once and told President George W. Bush to get lost. Not Australian Prime Minister John Howard, though. He was playing the long game. He knew he could take over Madison Avenue and get Americans hooked on flat whites, so he agreed to join the U.S.-led coalition, sending around two thousand troops to Iraq. This partnership, along with the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement, is widely believed to have led to the creation of the E-3 visa

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