Australia can't afford to squander chance to do good at UN

By Bruce Haigh
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:27pm, first published January 11 2013 - 3:00am

Australia took up its two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council on January 1 this year. It is ill-equipped to make the contribution expected of it. While most other non-member states have a staff of 16 or more to help run the seat, Australia has just eight. The penny-pinching is not confined to New York. Sections, branches and divisions in Canberra that will be required to meet a substantially increased workload of briefings are understaffed. Already, officers have been called back from leave to meet the demand.

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