With Kevin Rudd visiting Indonesia next week, thoughts are turning to what 'deliverables' he might achieve. As I
argue in the AFR today, the visit won’t revolutionise our relationship, but it is important to shift it a notch higher, to reflect Indonesia’s return to being a 'normal' country. Downgrading the scary Travel Advisory (as suggested in this blog before, including
last week) seems an obvious move, and for Australia to delay after the US has
downgraded its warning just begs the question, 'what do we know that the Americans don’t?'
