Don’t think I will get a chance to press Putin to stop his invasion of Ukraine but look forward to meeting Europeans, old friends from Southeast Asia including Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, South Korea’s National Assembly Speaker, a former Japanese PM & two former PMs of NZ.

According to historian John Hirst China tied up so many Japanese divisions - ~1 million troops - that plans by its navy to invade Australia in 1942 had to be vetoed by the army.

Proud to be going to China next week (at own expense) to address Institute for Foreign Affairs & comparable think tank in Shanghai about Aus-China relations following successful visit of PM Albanese & witnessing commemoration of Japan’s WWII defeat. 20mil Chinese lives est. lost.

I wrote in my memoir Greg enlivened my years at The Bulletin. We were lucky that he didn’t enter politics - his debating prowess and humour could have relaunched the DLP.

Bitcoin’s on fire at $112K! Time to flip the charts on BTCC!.Exploring Cryptocurrency with Jaren Jackson Jr.🏀.

I could have listened another hour. Stan has a degree in theology and serious thoughts on Aborigines and Christianity. This broad church gathering.

A lively and erudite exchange: Greg Sheridan being questioned by Stan Grant on his new book arguing that Christians must copy the early church.

…and my letter to his predecessor Ambassador Haqbin below. The Bahá’í have suffered greatly - a small, vulnerable and entirely peaceable community.

My September 2023 meeting w/ Iranian Ambassador Sadeghi was dominated by my representations for the Baha’i community, a long-term interest back to my statements as FM (Sept 24 2012 in Senate on persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran; May 6 2013 my call for release of 7 Bahá’í leaders)….

Two former premiers in support of Greg Warren, Labor MP for Campbelltown, at a very supportive and happy fundraising lunch. Morris Iemma highlighted colossal investment in region’s health sector in his time, building on my own government’s work on Camden & Campbelltown hospitals

A first class briefing from interns from Aus Institute of Int’l Affairs. Discussions ranged over strands in the MAGA movement, whether any agenda for US-China talks, applicability of Responsibility to Protect to war in Gaza, conditions for cessation to Russian invasion of Ukraine

There won’t be much left by 20 January 2029 - though J D Vance should provide another version of US decline.

Zohran Mamdani: He votes for activists, not you

Trump is doing what int’l communism failed to do: destroying America’s standing as the reliable core of the Western alliance. Beating up partners with his crazed tariffs is only part of it. Now he has extorted a 10% share of Intel, a bizarre new page in the history of capitalism.

Expelling Iranian Ambassador was appropriate given its organisation of anti-semitic attacks. Not quite w/o precedent given my expulsion of most senior Syrian diplomat in Aus, its Charge d’Affairs, in 2012 following massacre of 100 civilians by Assad regime

A prize copy of my Diary of A Foreign Minister to anyone who sights a condemnation or even expression of concern from our Jewish lobby.

More courtrooms will have to be built in The Hague for eventual trials which promise to be bigger than Tokyo.

Attacking Gaza hospital - I assume the war criminals in the IDF heard it had a children’s ward in which case it became an irresistible target. UNICEF Canada estimates over 50,000 children killed or injured.

Who else in history has conducted medical experiments on kids? While you’re thinking let’s have the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies say it condemns this inhumanity.

This is from the UK’s most conservative paper The Daily Mail - it shows 2 year old Sham Kadih. Israel’s deputy PM insists pics are of pre-existing medical conditions. If so I guess the denial of food, medicine, drinkable water is a sure-fire cure. At least a medical experiment.

You blow up their houses and destroy their possessions. You force them to flee. What about the elderly, the sick, babies? To live in ragged tents. To have to search all night for water, food. This is genocide. Why won’t the Jewish lobby in Aus condemn it?

Another corpse of a Palestinian baby - death caused by “systematic obstruction” of supplies of food and medicine. My challenge to the Jewish lobby: speak up and tell Netanyahu to stop destroying homes and to let food and medicine reach the walking corpses of Gaza.