Condoleezza Rice Visits Camp Pendleton
Accompanying Rice on the afternoon stopover at the northern San Diego County USMC installation was Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. A handful of Australian troops are training at the base.

and I'm off to watch a perfectly fitting show:
Voyage of the Courtesans
Recalling the 1790 voyage of British female convicts who were sent to an Australian penal colony. The women transformed the vessel into a brothel and offered their services to men at ports along the way. The documentary is based on a book by Sian Rees.