Will Rudd go job-hunting at the G20? I can't believe even Kevin Rudd would duck out in the days just before the election to fluff his feathers at one of the international talk shops he adores - and will never again see: KEVIN Rudd has left open the possibility that he may spend his final days of the election campaign attending the G20 summit in Russia to deal with the Syrian chemical weapons crisis. Warning Tony Abbott did not have the "temperament" to deal with such international crises, the Prime Minister suggested he might still attend the summit on September 5-6. I said at the outset that our intention is that Australia would be represented by the Foreign Minister but I will continue to be in consultation with global leaders on this question. We are in uncertain times. That's just the truth of it. It would be quite wrong of me to pretend to any of you that these are normal times. Samuel J says Syria is a bad excuse for one last G20 junket: But this shows [Rudd] does not understand the raison d"Ãªtre of the G-20 which is about economics and finance, not security and defence. The official G-20 website states: The Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier forum for international cooperation on the most important issues of the global economic and financial agenda... The Syrian crisis is not part of the G-20?s mandate. Security responses are the function of the G-8 (which Australia is not a member of) and the United Nations Security Council.