State Department cable to Secretary of State Powell giving advice on upcoming visits of senior U.S. Defense policy and Pol-Mil visitors to Australia in a two-week period in Mid-August 2003 "to convey the importance of our alliance to our Australian colleagues and to prepare systematically for a tightly focused, highly productive October meeting in Port Douglas." The cable points out that the press may infer something is wrong with so many meetings and with the people scheduled, but it is stressed that these are normal meetings that are scheduled by happenstance and partly because of the high operational tempo of the schedule.