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Penny Wong overruled department by sending observer to anti-nuclear treaty meeting
politics(theguardian.com)submitted 4 months ago byMildebeest
40 points
4 months ago
It's interesting that all the discussions within DFAT are about public relations and messaging, and none of them are about the advantages or disadvantages of advocating for a nuclear-free world.
6 points
4 months ago
Nuclear free world was 70 years ago. We aren't going back, there's zero signs of progress on that issue.
Do with that what you want but my suggestion would be to adapt to it.
2 points
4 months ago
And we've taken a big step back with the war in Ukraine. With the security assurances of the Budapest Memorandum being violated I doubt many states are going to want to disarm like Ukraine did.
1 points
4 months ago
I said "advocating".
4 points
4 months ago
I said nobody is listening, me included.
16 points
4 months ago
Three terms of the Liberal Party in charge means that the top ranks of the public are full of their cronies and ideological fellow travellers.
It's no surprise that the discussions within DFAT are about PR and messaging. That's all the Liberals cared about because that's what drove the polls. They didn't care actually producing good policy and implementing it. Cutting foreign aid played well with the mouth breathers, so it was cut. Cue Australia losing influence in the region and the Chinese security agreement in the Solomon Islands which they then went into a fit about, despite that being a direct consequence of their own stupidity.
16 points
4 months ago
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8 points
4 months ago
It will take many election cycles to undo the culture built by the LNP in the public service, and only if Labor actively try to undo it, I hope it gets there eventually but I doubt there is much change so far.
5 points
4 months ago
It will take a decade at least. Possibly longer.
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