BRUCETON, NEW SOUTH WALES - Australia's recent demands that the rest of the world begin importing more Foster's Lager “or else” were dramatically clarified today with the testing of two 20 kiloton nuclear devices at a location beyond the Black Stump, deep within the heart of the island continent. The tests were followed by a hastily called press conference at the Thunderdome. The event confirmed Australia's place as the first country to demonstrate a nuclear capability under U.S. President Barak Obama's Nobel Peace Prize regime.

Reaction among world leaders was immediate once the prime minister's slang had been translated. The United States called for high level Tweets ® in order to defuse the Australian threat while Russia and China announced that they would immediately increase trade with Australia in anticipation of U.N. sanctions. In the MIddle East, Israel announced that it was putting the Israeli Defense Force on high alert and that “all options” for dealing with a nuclear Australia were on the table.
Wall Street greeted the news by spit-taking it's whiskey sour and immediately filing for a government bailout to pay the dry-cleaning bill.