One of the first things Rudd set out to do as PM was to secure a role for Australia (read himself) on the UN Security Council.

Australia was never going to be big enough for Rudd.  

I interviewed Julie Bishop about Rudd's outrageous strategy on 9 March 2009. Ms Bishop said of Rudd's plan:

• It's highly politically contentious
• Rudd is horsetrading to curry favour with UN member states, particularly the many Muslim states (bugger Israel, they've only got one vote)
• We should not pursue the seat "at any cost"
  
  • either financially 
  • nor by compromising our principles.

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2016/07/rudds-history-with-islam-the-united-nations-and-free-speech.html

You might recall Rudd was trading away free speech in favour of a statutory crime of defaming Islam.   He was also shovelling money into African states as quickly as they could deliver bags.  No wonder he had a howl when his Party turfed him, The Rudd had it all laid out ahead of him.

Something truly awful happens to some people when they dip a finger into the UN/celebrity/big money gravy train.

I really believed Julie and her profession of faith in the pre-eminence of Australia's principles.

She struck me as honest and uncompromising.

But that was then.   This is now.

Here's Julie witnessing our country signing a dodgy deal with the criminal Clinton's "charity" foundation.  The agreement on the table was to cover up for the first fraudulent Clinton HIV Aids entity that was deregistered by authorities in the US (if I was in the newspaper business I would add as exclusively revealed here).

http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2016/03/who-cares-its-just-blacks-dying-clinton-aids-australian-taxpayer-funded-pretend-drugs-that-will-make.html

The Clinton Foundation will come back to bite anyone who has had any involvement in it very soon.  The bites will be very, very big and painful.

Here's Julie not compromising Australia's principles by taking money from the House of Saud to promote the fundamental Waleed Aly Sunni version of Islam.   The one that funds terrorism.   The same fundamental Islam that Islamic State follows.  Saudi Arabia is a pariah, a rogue state - but not to New Julie.

Oh and the Security Council seat Rudd thought would be his - became hers.  Here's Madam President.

MONDAY, 25 JANUARY 2016

Julie Bishop and Chairman Mal look very happy about supporting KRudd in his bid to run the UN

The depth of this relationship worries me.  I've met them both and had a lot of dealings with one of the pigeon pair - how anyone could rate Rudd is beyond me.

This from The Australian, February 2013

As she flits about the Beach Club in her designer frock and high heels, posing for photographs and waving as tipsy patrons yell "hey Jules!", Bishop looks like a 50-something Carrie Bradshaw.

This is the Julie Bishop we don't see on television.

The girly girl who drinks pink champagne, throws lavish parties and loves a chat. The fashionista born in stilettos, who fancies Escada clothes and Kailis pearls, and counts being serenaded by Bono as her career highlight. The charming flirt who has been known to leave stuffy male diplomats slack-jawed.

Her friends struggle to understand why this colourful, energetic woman seems so prickly on television.

"Julie is a party girl, she loves kicking up her heels. In the public eye you have to be careful how that manifests itself."

And with whom. This from Fairfax November 2014

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New York: Julie Bishop has revealed she and Kevin Rudd became close friends as a result of Labor's leadership wars and has suggested the Opposition's Foreign Affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, is a lightweight on foreign policy compared to the former Labor prime minister.

In an exclusive interview with Fairfax Media, the Minister for Foreign Affairs says she consulted Mr Rudd on policy issues in opposition and the pair still text each other about foreign policy.

The pair entered politics together in 1998 but first became friendly when they observed Zimbabwe's election together in 2002.  They have stayed in touch ever since but Ms Bishop said they developed a "much closer friendship" as a result of Labor's bitter leadership battles.

"Through some of the really difficult times for him, I would go around and see him, he would come around and see me, we talked a lot about foreign policy, We talked a lot of about different approaches, I ran ideas past him," Ms Bishop said.

"We rarely disagreed on things," she said but said they did discuss the one major difference – Labor's bid to sit on the UN Security Council, which Ms Bishop and then opposition leader Tony Abbott regularly mocked.

"He knew that the Opposition had taken a position from 2007 on the Security Council and we would discuss it quite openly," she said.

 

 

And then there's Chairman Mal and his public declaration of devotion.   He's felt Kevin's pain.

 

The way these people close ranks, putting each other first before their country makes me feel ill.