Archive for 'Foreign Affairs'

Kung Fu training for AusAid workers a hit to taxpayers | News.com.au

Posted 21 October 2011 | By | Categories: Foreign Affairs | Comments Off

Taxpayers are coughing up more than $110,000 for foreign aid workers to learn martial arts. At the same time Labor can’t reduce its wasteful spending, they are refusing to look at ways the Department of Foreign Affairs can make savings like this because many Labor MP’s are afraid of upsetting potential leadership contender Kevin Rudd. [...]

Australia flying high for United Nations seat | thetelegraph.com.au

Australia flying high for United Nations seat | thetelegraph.com.au

Posted 01 April 2011 | By | Categories: Accountability, Foreign Affairs | Comments Off

Kevin Rudd continues to throw taxpayers’ money at his bid for a temporary seat on the UN Security Council.  TAXPAYERS forked out for dozens of business-class flights to bring United Nations ambassadors to Australia in the latest splurge to try to win a UN Security Council seat. A delegation of 23 ambassadors – from Africa, the Caribbean [...]