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January 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The trained diplomat then added: “No, I’m just joking. Working as a
diplomat is something that I wanted to do for a long time, and I was lucky
to get the opportunity to come to Indonesia,
a country that I already had a close relationship with.”
Ms Neary, who started learning Indonesian when she was 13, has been feted by
Australia’s foreign minister, Kevin Rudd. He this week posted a YouTube
video of himself in Jakarta alongside Ms Neary and another official who
entered as a contestant, Jeremy Stringer, who works for the government’s aid
organisation.
Mr Rudd has had strained relations with Jakarta, particularly over the passage
of asylum seekers heading by boat to Australia. As the website news.com.au
noted: “Kevin Rudd can’t do it – no matter how hard he tries – but
Australian diplomat Adelle Neary, from Adelaide, has won over the hearts and
minds of Indonesia.”
However, Mr Rudd, a former diplomat who is fluent in Mandarin but speaks no
Indonesian, appeared to do few favours to the exercise in soft power, saying
on his video that
the singing sounded “like something you would sing before the
haka”.
“These guys seriously know how to sing,” he said. “When they
win I know they will attribute their success to the fact that they have been
trained by the Australian foreign service and if they lose we’ll just disown
them.”
Ms Neary has received the Government’s approval to compete on the show and is
due to appear in the grand final and a Valentine’s Day special. However, if
she wins, she will not be allowed to take any cash prizes and says she would
donate her winnings to an Indonesian charity.
She said she was hoping to break down local stereotypes of Australians, who
are not widely known for being fluent in Indonesian or for publicly singing
on foreign soil while sober.
“I’m happy for them to laugh at me,” she said. “It’s all part
of having a go … It is surprising to me how musical this country is. It’s
just a good way to show respect and interest for the culture, but in a
light-hearted way.”
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