Labor is to national security what the Catholic church is child protection.

Alan Austin

did you say Julia?

Those who remember the last LNP Government may consider Labor and their Green's polices of loose lip spin got Australia into this mess in the first place.

I agree with Julie Bishop on one point. The current government is incompetent and unprincipled and wouldn't know an independent Australian foreign policy if it got kicked in the face by one.

But to accept that the LNP crowd would do any better is to conveniently let history go down the memory hole as Alan Austin so correctly points out.

The fatal flaw in your reasoning Ms Bishop is that you apparently regard Australia's interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan as successes of the Howard government. Both interventions were based on a massive series of lies, were contrary to international law, and have resulted in untold suffering for millions of people.

That of course is entirely consistent with the history of the past 65+ years. In 1967 Martin Luther King pointed out that the greatest purveyor of violence in the world was his own government. He was killed for that, as successive administrations have killed those who pose a threat to their hegemonic ambitions.

Instead of shooting the fish in a barrel that is the present government, Ms Bishop, let us hear from you an outline of an independent and principled foreign policy that the Coalition would pursue. No? Thought not.

So the Coalition are to be the role models of National Security?

What about National Monetary security Julie Bishop?

Both the major parties have sold off our Govt Banks since the 1980's.We used to have 4 State Banks and the Commonwealth.They used to create from nothing some of the money to equal our increases in productivity + inflation but now we are slaves to the international cartels to just create money to equal our productivity with the click of a computer mouse.

Both your Govt and the criminal Labor Party have sold us all out to contrived debt by our counterfeiting international banking cartels.That is the real national security both you and Labor will not address.

China is our best trading partner and now our Govts and Obama are trying to demonise them because they did not roll over to this cartel of banksters who wanted the Chinese Govt Banks to be sold off just like ours.Note that Obama is sending troops to 35 African countries to contain China.US ships are also in the Artic to lay claim to rich oil and gas resources there.

China was well liked by our Western Elites until they in 2008 decided that they liked their sovereignity and did not want to be enslaved by Western debt.The BRICS Nations as an opposition to Western Imperialism,are good for the people in all countries, since the large Western Corps will not be able to control all the energy/resources thus making energy/resources more affordable for us.

A war with Russia/China will make us ordinary folk as always the poor in lifespan ,poor in quality of life and a few Western Elites even more powerful,if their meglomanic plans of Global domination work.

Gee Alan, I dare say we'll be seeing a lot more of you now Wood's Global Mail has disappeared up its own cyper sphincter.

It's also good to see the absence of any pretense of moderation and civility in your leftist rant.

Are you after preselection, or should that be appointment by Gillard, anywhere?