It Would Be Extremely Difficult to Fault - IN ANY WAY - Media Reports, Anyhow, of Prime Minister Ardern's Major Foreign Policy Speech to Australia's Lowy Institute Today...

The U.N.'s response to the Ukrainian crisis has indeed been appalling (or whatever term the PM used), and does indeed show the travesty (my words) of what that once august and esteemed institution has long since become...

And China has indeed been - well beyond simply - remiss with their wet bus ticketed approach to 'censuring' Russia - not! - over its shameful actions in Ukraine...

But where prithee has Jacinda Ardern been this past week? Oh, Australia (for all manner of seemingly relatively inconsequential meetings here, there and everywhere with seemingly everyone and everybody)

But why not in Ukraine, having been extended a special invitation thereto?

A mystery indeed, and as Mike Hosking well inquires, pretty well inexplicable, and such an unaccountable decision that, like Hosking, I too cannot but assume there must be some other underlying reason...and one that seemingly could only be of very real concern (to NZers in particular)...