Regardless of her reassurances, Asian leaders will get the foreign minister's message, writes Mary Kostakidis. And she offered little hope to the cause of freeing Julian Assange.
By Mary Kostakidis
Pearls and Irritations
At the National Press Club in Canberra on Monday, Foreign Minister
The supposedly anti-war meeting was addressed by the American colonel who wrote Colin Powell’s infamous speech justifying the US invasion of Iraq and by Bob Carr, who as foreign minister played a key role in Australia’s integration into the US-led plans for war with China.
A sitting senator, a former foreign minister, a retired diplomat and Colin Powell's former chief of staff told an anti-war meeting in a Sydney town hall that Australians were being dragged without their consent into a U.S. war on China and it has to stop.
A week after Australian Prime Minist