Bob Carr's - Australia's Foreign Affairs Ministers maiden speech to the Australian Senate and the 'quoted extract' can be located can be located

http://bobcarrblog.wordpress.com/ and http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/genpdf/chamber/hansards/34dcc858-84ef-4fe3-9144-f6f97af26110/0179/hansard_frag.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf  " Running foreign policy is about protecting our national interest, although by every tenet of diplomatic doctrine that comes first and foremost. It is also about being an exemplary global citizen when it comes to protecting human rights and protecting the world's oceans. To this I would like to add that in foreign policy we may also promote and defend cultural diversity, the idea of a planet of seven billion that celebrates and does not deny its contradictions.”  Bob Carrs blog can be found at http://bobcarrblog.wordpress.com/ -