Greens get the independent foreign policy they called for Greens leader Christine Milne: in September: Greens leader Christine Milne has condemned the government's decision to follow the US ... "It's time Australians recognised we need to have our own independent foreign policy," she said. Prime Minister Tony Abbott delivers: In one of the rare instances of an Australian leader standing up to a US President on a major policy issue, Mr Abbott refused to allow the final communiquÃ© to include a binding requirement that all G20 nations commit to the Green Climate Fund announced by Mr Obama on Saturday at University of Queensland. Several Australian officials, however, said privately that it had been "discourteous" of the US President to grandstand on the issue as a guest in Australia â this year's host of the G20. Abbott's defiance is important. It saves taxpayers money, prevents waste and helps the poor and unemployed. The Greens must be, er, pleased. Laura Tingle might have to rewrite her weekend gloat to reverse the roles: Barack Obama has delivered a rather humiliating exercise in power politics over the weekend: showing how leadership and power lies in setting and controlling an agenda â¦ Memo to Abbott Government ministers: listen to how Environment Minister Greg Hunt called out the ABC's Fran Kelly for verballing and hyperboling in her typical global warming enthusiasm. The ABC's bias must be challenged at every turn. It is out of control. But with the Hunt interview over, Kelly then gets on two fellow journalists - Mark Kenny and Michelle Grattan - to agree with her that Obama is a climate hero, Abbott is a zero and climate change a menace. The ABC's balance?