Australia’s diplomats are all back in town, meeting with each other and their Australian-based counterparts this week to discuss shaping Australia’s foreign policy white paper. Our tipster tells us that in a room of diplomats, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Frances Adamson made a small faux pas that might not have gone down so well with her boss, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. We’re told:
“At the end of day one this week of the $1.17 million love-in for Australia’s ambassadors, DFAT Secretary Frances Adamson introduced Trade Minister [Steve Ciobo], who delivered a speech, by saying she’d ‘saved the best till last’. Whoops! First on the agenda that day had been Julie Bishop’s introductory speech for the two-day meeting.”
They do love spending our money don’t they? Have they never heard of technology?
What with one lot wanting to spend$250m on furnishing new offices, Barnaby Joyce spending God knows how much in his own electorate by transferring his department up there, Julie Bishop spending thousands on getting to work on time, this is apart from personal stuff. MPs spending thousands on homes they supposedly live in and Bill Shorten supposedly spending $66,000 on clothes for election purposes..One Minister buying the house next door and forgetting she’d bought it? The mind boggles and we probably don’t know the half of it. Why don’t we sack them all (although there a few good ones I think) and start again with a new non adversarial system. No screaming nasty personal remarks at each other with each side smirking when their boss gets one in. Going on a bit aren’t I but they are so overt and running ??? this country of ours with not a thought for the people who live here and try to get work here and struggle because wages are low, full time jobs like gold, pensioners frightened their pensions will go down, etc etc. enough said