What's happened to the alliance is that the great relationship we have had with the Americans in wartime, and the cultural affinity with the jazz period of the 1920s, the swing era in the 1940s, Elvis Presley and rock and roll, Hollywood, the sitcoms, and the relationship between the citizens of Australia and the citizens of America, society to society, has been suborned by this now sacramental and foolish tone we are ­encouraged to have about the ­alliance.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "What's happened to the alliance is that the great relationship we have had with the Americans in wartime, and the cultural affinity with the jazz period of the 1920s, the swing era in the 1940s, Elvis Presley and rock and roll, Hollywood, the sitcoms, and the relationship between the citizens of Australia and the citizens of America, society to society, has been suborned by this now sacramental and foolish tone we are ­encouraged to have about the ­alliance." in the context of "Paul Keating, 24th Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of his country's Labor Party from 1991 to 1996, explaining how his country's alliance with the US has now been supplanted by the relationship itself, in an interview published on the Australian, on September 23, 2017. and entitled "Keating blasts Australia for adopting US foreign policy"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.