Tons of Australians are a bit upset about their new Prime Minister. Apparently, when he ran a campaign based on not being Bush's lapdog, they weren't expecting him to salute him when they met him. I just find this a bit humorous:

Follow-up: The Australians didn't repel one, but five, Iranian gunboats. It was a four hour confrontation following the Aussies boarding a grounded gunship, and it happened in 2004.

Remember the British soldiers that were temporarily captured by Iran, causing an international bruhaha? Remember how they ranted for days and weeks about how there was no way they could've avoided capture? The Australians managed to do it:

It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy.

The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it".

The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".

The Iranians withdrew, and the Australians were reportedly lifted off the ship by one of their own helicopters.

They aimed their machine guns at the approaching Islamofascists, and used highly colorful language to make their intentions clear. Lesson to Britain, that is how it's done.