1/4 The contrast between Canada and Australia in terms of middle power leadership and influence couldn't be starker. Oz PM Morrison is personally reaching out to leaders with a proposal for a sensible, independent review of how the WHO has operated during the pandemic

2/4 Meanwhile PM Trudeau is giving us a gloss of whatever it was that our unelected, non-accountable ambassador said behind closed doors about China's "negative soft power"

3/4 Australia is busily reinventing multilateralism for a future that threatens us with an increasingly hostile China and an increasingly distracted, disconnected US. Addressing this, and quickly, is essential for middle powers, which explains why Morrison is getting a hearing

4/4 Meanwhile Canada is wrapping up a 1980s style UN election campaign, using tax dollars to buy votes from unreliable governments for an increasingly irrelevant, non-permanent seat on the Security Council