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MUA among visionaries at 20:20 Summit21 April 2008By MUA news -
MUA national secretary Paddy Crumlin flies to an executive board meeting of International Transport Workers' Federation in London after a weekend brainstorming big ideas with the likes of actors Cate Blanchett, Hugh Jackman, Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson, TV host Andrew Denton and ACTU President Sharan Burrow Among the big ideas canvassed at the 20:20 Summit held in Canberra over the weekend were the Australian republic, a charter of rights, an Aboriginal treaty, revamping federation and labour mobility within Australia and the Asia-Pacific underpinned by Australian workplace standards. MUA National Secretary Paddy Crumlin joined ACTU President Sharan Burrow on Australia's Future Security and Prosperity in a Rapidly Changing Region and world working group. Both the ACTU President Sharan Burrow and the national secretary had a major impact on adoption of new initiatives directly relevant to MUA policy to expand Australian maritime participation in the region. In particular they highlighted the need to promote opportunities for Australian shipping in international trade, as part of our commitment to provide raw material, energy and food security to our regional neighbours and to strengthen regional security, nation building and peace. The working group examining Australia's Future Security and Prosperity in a Rapidly Changing Region and World, one of 10 working groups, agreed that Australia should pursue: • Engagement of major regional economies: US, Japan, China, India; • new leadership in global governance, including a deeper institutional engagement to nation and peace building; • A broader conception of security, incuding smart power to address food, water and energy security issues in collaboration with our neighbours and local, domestic, and community security as a foundation for national and global security. Paddy Crumlin said that the outcomes from this working group essentially acknowledged the strong link between trade, economic development and security. The idea of regional integration through trade policy, aid policy, security and defence policy and labour mobility is strongly linked to our internationalism and the central role of shipping in these policy objectives. Critical of the modest union presence at the summit was Opposition leader Brendan Nelson, who suggested it a business leader would have been more appropriate participant than the MUA national secretary.
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