Obama begins visit to Australia
President Barack Obama has finally fulfilled his promise to visit Australia.
Mr Obama today arrived in the Australian capital of Canberra after travelling from Honolulu, where the president hosted an economic summit.
The president will spend a day and a half in Australia, meeting with the country’s prime minister and addressing the Australian Parliament.
And he is expected to announce that the US is expanding its military presence on the continent.
Mr Obama has twice cancelled plans to visit Australia, once to stay in Washington to lobby for passage of his health care bill, and again in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
