Once the Australian federal election was announced and Parliament was dissolved, the Australian Government assumed on March 28 a caretaker role.
As you can see from the images of this post, the submission of Greece to the Executive of UNESCO, with the support of 67 at the time countries, BUT NOT THE SUPPORT OF AUSTRALIA, asking for the official declaration of an International Greek Language Day, was acknowledged on March 27.
The Department of Foreign Affairs told us today that, they did not support at the time the Greek request because the government was in a care taker gear. THIS IS NOT TRUE!
The unfolding of this event, raises a number of questions:
1. How well does the political leadership of the Department of Foreign Affairs of Australia, supervises and guides its representatives to various international bodies?
2. How well was the campaign run in Australia, by the diplomats of Greece and by various Greek Australian organisations, in order to alert the Australian government of the upcoming request of Greece, regarding a historical language spoken by at least 230,000 Australians as well?
3 How well do the Greek Australian media, run their business? How trust worthy can they be? Why do they accept at face value the media releases of govertnments, private and state interests, as well as various self-proclaimed community leaders?
Finally, let us all remind ourselves that once upon a time, the representative of Australia to UNESCO was Gough Whitlam!
