THE tough talking Jacqui Lambie has urged Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten to tone down their anger against Vladimir Putin, ahead of the G20 meeting in Brisbane next month.
The Tasmanian Palmer United Party Senator wants the pair to “stop acting like hormone-affected school boys trying to out macho each other on the footie field — and start acting like mature leaders of a great country”.
Her comments follow the Prime Minister's vow to “shirtfront” the Russian President over the downing of MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July.
“I welcome Mr Putin’s trip to Australia for the G20 meeting — while there are legitimate questions that should be answered over the shooting down of MH17 in July, a tragic event which killed 298 people, including 38 Australian citizens and residents — I don’t believe for a minute that Mr Putin would have wanted that disaster and loss of life to happen,” she said.
“Mr Putin is an important and powerful world leader who must be listened to and spoken with — if we want a world for our children where peace has a chance.
“He’s impressed me with his no nonsense attitude to the threat of Islamic extremism.
“And unlike most Australian political leaders there’s no BS about him.
“He means what he says and says what he means. It’s important to act in a mature manner and keep lines of communication open with him.”Yesterday Mr Abbott said he plans to “shirtfront” Mr Putin when the pair meet next month.
“You bet I am.
“I’m going to be saying to Mr Putin — Australians were murdered and they were murdered by Russian-backed rebels using Russian supplied equipment.”
His remarks in Central Queensland followed Bill Shorten telling reporters he wouldn’t be giving President Putin the time of day.
“How is it that the President of the Russian Federation, Putin, can thumb his nose at the rest of the world, go wherever he wants without there being any repercussions or indeed any cooperation with the independent investigation as to how this happened?
“I believe Putin knows more about what happened with MH17 than he’s let on.”
Ms Lambie has kinder words for Russia than she has for China.
In August she suggested Australia should be prepared for a possible Chinese communist invasion.
“If anybody thinks that we should have a national security and defence policy, which ignores the threat of a Chinese Communist invasion — you’re delusional and got rocks in your head,” she said.
“The Communist Chinese military capacity and level of threat to the western world democracies is at an unprecedented and historical high.”

The Australian cringe still alive and well!

Putin is a wannabe latter-day Czar... not a democrat.

.........Mr Putin is an important and powerful world leader who must be listened to and spoken with .........

It is important for Australia not to pretend that Putin is ultimately responsible for what is happening in the Ukraine. for arming and egging on the separatist Russians who shot down the plane. To not mention this when seeing him face to face would be wrong.

The answer to that is that the atrocity happened on Ukrainian soil and it is not yet clear whether the aircraft was downed by a missile possibly fired from a position behind rebel lines, possibly not, possibly fired by rebels, possibly fired by Ukrainian Government or paramilitary forces or else downed by a military aircraft flown by the Ukrainian Air Force. In fact, why has it taken the UK so long to come clean about what happened? Does it take that long to doctor the black boxes, eh whatty what?

Russia, like every other member of the international community, condemned the downing of the civilian aircraft, expressed its deep sadness at the loss of civilian lives (including children) and like everyone else fully supported the international investigation into the horrific incident. So what exactly does Mr. Abbott mean when he insinuates that Russia has not cooperated fully with the investigation? Is he trying to say that Russia was responsible for the incident? Is he following in the footsteps of the Press of his colonial master, with their idiotic and slanderous headlines blaming "Putin"? Perhaps he would like to appear in the dock alongside them when the charges are brought, which they will be...

All Tony is going to do - from reports - is advise Mr Putin that Australians were murdered....I think he already knows that....

All wind and piss.... just big-mouthing about nothing to sound tough and serious.....