First "..because we are used to the ALP taking foreign policy very seriously as part of its policy vision..."
And then "And with former Minister Bob Carr, we may have seen the worst ever ALP foreign policy minister." ??

I find it hard to believe that anyone from NSW could take Bob Carr seriously as Foreign Minister, or anything else. The man who paved the way for the shambles that was the Iemma--Rees--Keneally Puppet Show should have been quietly put out to grass years ago.

And I also fail to see why we should waste the time of anyone who has useful work to do by sending them to a climate conference with other more gullible nations. We're not taking their advice any more, thank goodness, and they're unlikely to take ours until they've burnt through many more billions of dollars in the name of 'climate change mitigation' and 'sustainability'. We've dodged a bullet, folks; now it's time to get off the firing range.

"When we don't send a minister to climate negotiations, or our minister does not attend his final press briefing at the G20 Summit, these days we look arrogant rather than amateur."

Given the farcical ideological propaganda involved in pushing the AGW cause, Abbott is giving it the right priority. Rudd went completely overboard when he took circa 115 public servants on his caravan to Copenhagen in 2009.