When the Labour government made moves to be elected to the United Nations Security Council the coalition derided them for their efforts. Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister, Julie Bishop describing it as ‘extravagant’ and distracting ‘from core foreign policy interests’. Critics  produced a range of arguments, which were wheeled out by the Opposition in Parliament.
Australian national interest is not confined but interrelated — defence, human rights and trade all intersect globally. Transnational issues such as people movement and refugee settlement cannot be managed effectively without global coordination and discussion. So the ‘Australia within it’s region’ mindset is both limiting and outdated.It was the Gillard government  argued that a seat at the UN Security Council would allow the Australian community via the Australian Government to speak out more clearly on issues of moment, and it would allow Australian diplomats to keep their fingers on the pulse of important discussions affecting global diplomatic norms and also Australia’s regional security.What’s more, it would provide Australians with the motivation to think through more clearly and consistently the kinds of values we wish as a nation to inform our engagement on the world stage.
Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop should be grateful now for the position  the current  immense tradjedy of MH17’s downing has placed them in. Slap bang in the center of world affairs. A position that has changed the face of Australia’s media and taken the attention away from the realities of their governments current  shit political policies. They are now the beacons the represenatives of world values.
Abbott hates the UN interference in our national interest neocons argue it’s a dead weight around the necks of governments and their regions. World Heritage is a load of crap the Great Barrier Reef belongs to us as does the Old Growth Tasmanian Forrest. The UN are just interfering do-gooders. Shit Human Rights Scott Morrisson is the Minister in charge and the UN can take a running jump as far as asylum seekers are concerned. Close down the the UN it’s almost bankrupt, ineffective and interfering in national progress and internal decisions.
It’s this the organization, the UN and Australia’s position on the Security Council that is allowing Abbott to bellow. Be it all for a good cause but after the noise calms down let’s not forget that Hockey and Abbott would not have spent the money to be at the table and would prefer to be non members lurking in the shadows.