July 18, 2014 | 2:55 AM EDT
In a statement Friday on the shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines plane
over eastern Ukraine, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, in a
clear allusion to Russia, said: “The bullying of small countries by big
ones, the trampling of justice and decency in the pursuit of national
aggrandizement, and reckless indifference to human life, should have no
place in our world.”