Aid

Robert Mugabe's attendance at a UN summit on food security in Rome has been criticised by Australia's foreign minister as "obscene".

Even more obscene was the absence  of Rudd or even the Australian foreign minister himself in this growing tragedy of a worldwide food crisis.

At least Mugabe bothered to attend.

But the conference was simply seen by our foreign minister as a cheap opportunity for imperialist propaganda shots rather than an opportunity for an announcement of a doubling of aid to the third world.