Well, some of you may or may not have heard, but Australia and America have just signed a Free Trade Agreement!.

I'm sure many people love to bash Americans, god knows I do :) But when it comes down to it, they are a lot like us (Australians) and are generally a good people.

Whether this FTA turns out to be a huge boon or not will have to remain to be seen.

From Australias perspective, this is how things look: [Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade>http://www.dfat.gov.au/trade/negotiations/us.html]