Abbott Calls For Independent Investigation Of MH17; Foreign Minister Off To UN To Co-Ordinate Campaign

Jul 19, 2014

The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has dispatched the Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, to the United Nations to co-ordinate Australia’s demand for a full and fearless investigation into the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

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Speaking at a press conference, Abbott and Bishop said a binding United Nations Security Council resolution was needed to ensure that an independent and impartial investigation takes place.

Abbott said a proper investigation “is a matter of the utmost gravity for us and others”. He said 298 innocent people have been killed, “people who had no part in the conflict in Europe but whose lives were snuffed out”. [Read more…]

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200 Years of History in 4 Minutes

Jan 08, 2011

This video shows Dr. Hans Rosling charting the improvements in health and income around the world over the past 200 years.

The 4-minute clip is an extract from The Joy of Stats. The complete video of The Joy of Stats can be seen here.

Rosling’s GapMinder website describes itself as a “non-profit venture – a modern ‘museum’ on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.” It was founded in Stockholm in 2005.

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Kevin Rudd Addresses the United Nations General Assembly

Sep 26, 2008

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. This is the text of his speech.

  • Listen to Rudd’s concluding remarks (3m)

Transcript of Kevin Rudd’s Address to the U.N. General Assembly.

We gather together at a time of great challenge to the international system.

A challenge that reminds us afresh that we live in a world where our interdependence is now greater than at any time before. [Read more…]

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Kevin Rudd’s Address To UN Bali Conference On Climate Change

Dec 12, 2007

Australia now stands ready to assume its responsibility in responding to the challenge of climate change, according to the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.

Addressing the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Bali, Rudd said his first act as Prime Minister had been to sign the formal instrument for Australia to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. This was because “we believe that climate change represents one of the greatest moral, economic and environmental challenges of our age”.

Rudd reiterated his government’s decision to await the Garnaut Review in mid-2008 before deciding on short and medium term targets for reducing greenhouse emissions.

  • Listen to Kevin Rudd’s Address to the Bali Conference (11m)

This is the full text of Kevin Rudd’s Address to the Conference on Climate Change, in Bali.

His Excellency, the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, His Excellency, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, fellow national Leaders, Ministers, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, and all people of goodwill committed to the future of our planet.

I join with the Secretary-General and with the President of the Indonesian Republic in expressing our combined condemnation of this obscene terrorist attack in Algiers. An attack on innocent civilians, an attack on the agents of peace, those working for the United Nations, and therefore, an attack on us all. And I join with them in extending our thoughts and our prayers to those directly affected by this obscene attack. [Read more…]

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