On November 11, 2012 Secretary Clinton traveled to Perth, Australia to join U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Australian Foreign comment section from article below: On November 11, 2012 Secretary Clinton traveled to Perth, Australia to join U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, and Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith for the annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) to discuss security cooperation and other regional and global issues. In Perth, Secretary Clinton met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Foreign Minister Bob Carr. She also visited the new Western Australia – United States & Asia Centre (USAC). She traveled to Adelaide where she met with Australian business leaders as well as visited Techport Australia, Australia’s largest and most advanced shipbuilding facility.
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2016/07/reconciling-australian-taxpayer-funded-clinton-foundation-donations-.html
http://archive.is/bCukZ
More problems for DFAT and The Clintons over $70M we appear to have donated to a conman
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Kevin Rudd was the master of the grand gesture. In 2008 he gifted $400,000,000.00 of our money to a piece of chicanery unchallenged for primacy in the snake-oil stakes.
Here he is making his announcement, squished between a speech by Barack Obama and the class photo for some ignoble and unmemorable forum.
Note the decorous way attendees are ushered onstage to chat among themselves while the Rudd rudds. Various mobile phones beep to accompany the rapt attention given to this Australian Prime Minister as he announces his donation of $400 million of our money to do nothing.
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In April 2015 we first reported on the Australian Government's donations to the Clinton Foundation based on the disclosures in the Clinton's annual reports to US regulators.
The Foundation disclosed payments from the Commonwealth of Australia and AUSAID in a band between $15 and $35M.
That $70M is at odds with Julie Bishop's September 2014 statement that the total then was $88M.
Australia and the Clinton Climate Initiative
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Clinton Climate Initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation.
Under the MOU Australia and the Clinton Climate Initiative will work together to help tackle climate change.
The MOU will see Australia and the William J. Clinton Foundation collaborate to;
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Deploy carbon capture and storage technology to large scale projects.
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Examine policies to encourage large scale solar power generation in Australia.
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Design collaborative policies in conjunction with large cities and other organisations on improving energy efficiency.
The William J Clinton Foundation will work with the Australian Government through Australia's Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Initiative announced by Prime Minister Rudd last week.
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[–] shitpostfacto1 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
70,000,000 little winged Australian dollars flying away to the Clinton Foundation....
[–] kestrel9 [S] ago
How much was the Nazi Gold worth? Are the Clintons looking to beat that record? Makes the repeating theme of dentist chairs pretty creepy.
[–] shitpostfacto1 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Those Clintons, they certainly are an acquisitive lot!