Big Kev heralds ... 'the age of globalisation of everything'

I couldn't stomach reading all of Big Kev's recent speech in one go, so here is a 2nd installment.

Kevin Rudd, The Future of the Australian Foreign Service

The concept of an Asia Pacific community and its reflection in the new composition of the East Asian Summit...

My message today, is that in an increasingly globalised order, on what might be called the age of globalisation of everything, this Australian foreign service will become more important to the prosecution of our national interests ...

Ideas count in foreign policy.

... we also need to be in the business of “ideas brokerage” around the world...

Building coalitions of support around ideas is also a core task of our future diplomacy.

This is precisely what we did with the formation of the G20 when there were many other competing ideas in the field.

This is also what we did with our proposal to reform our region’s political, strategic and economic architecture.

File under: this Australian foreign service will become more important to the prosecution persecution of our national interests.