ABBOTT & BISHOP ” A UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT NOT IN OUR INTEREST”

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 So the ‘Australia within its region’ mindset is both limiting and outdated.It was the Gillard government that had to argue that a seat at the UN Security Council would allow the Australian community via the Australian Government to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 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  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 position.
Abbott hates the UN’s 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. ‘Human Rights’ Scott Morrisson is the Minister in charge of Immigration and No Information  and the UN can take a running jump as far as asylum seekers are concerned we have it in hand we promise. Close down the the UN it’s almost bankrupt, it’s cost ineffective and interfering in national progress and our mates’ interests
It’s this organization, the UN and Australia’s current position on the Security Council that is allowing Abbott & Bishop to roar & Putin to at least listen . While it is for good cause and needs saying when the noise calms down let’s not forget that  Abbott anthe coalition would not have spent the money to be at the table. They would prefer to be non members lurking in the shadows with less attention.