Julie Bishop, Friday 15 June 2012
Good morning everybody. I acknowledge the Hon Fred Chaney, the students from MLC and the other guests who are here to support this important event.I am delighted to have the opportunity to open the GROW Photographic Exhibition on behalf of Make Poverty History in support of the Millennium Developme [...]
Monthly archives for June, 2012
Address to Make Poverty History’...
Julie Bishop, Friday 15 June 2012
Good morning everybody. I acknowledge the Hon Fred Chaney, the students from MLC and the other guests who are here to support this important event.I am delighted to have the opportunity to open the GROW Photographic Exhibition on behalf of Make Poverty History in support of the Millennium Developme [...]
Aussie lawyer must be released
Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop says an Australian lawyer detained by authorities in Libya should be released immediately.Melinda Taylor, 36, and three other staff from the International Criminal Court (ICC) were detained on Thursday while representing Seif al-Islam, the son of slain former Libyan leader Muammar [...]
Smart power diplomacy
Written by Julie Bishop Thursday, 07 June 2012
The influential foreign policy scholar Joseph Nye, a former Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has argued for many years that nations need to combine the use of “soft power” and “hard power” to leverage what he calls “smart power”.
The United States is arguably the gr [...]
