Peace summit 'smart' way to combat Russian propaganda, Australian representative says
Australian Government Services Minister Bill Shorten, head of his country’s delegation at the peace summit in Switzerland, says he was surprised by the event. Shorten has been in politics for eight years and was a trade union representative for 15 years before that. In his experience, politics has its high notes, and other times “it's just going through the motions.” “There were more high notes here than I expected,” he told the Kyiv Independent on the sidelines of the summit, which brought together over 90 countries to discuss three major themes in Ukraine’s 10-point peace plan: nuclear safet...