NO ILLUSIONS 28 – Virginia Balmain, UNAA

Summary: My guest today is Virginia Balmain who is the President of the <a title="United Nations Association of Australia" href="http://www.unaa.org.au/">United Nations Association of Australia</a> (QLD) and the Vice-President of the UNAA in Australia. We chat about Australia's role in the UN, our obligations as a Member Nation, and some of the contentious issues surrounding the UN - the veto power of the permanent members of the Security Council, the rise of the "Islamic Bloc", how it is funded and whether or not it is a "toothless tiger".