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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced Australia will launch a bid to sit on the United Nations Security Council in 2029 and 2030.
Ms Bishop used Australia's influential position as a non-permanent council member - which expired on December 31 last year - to push key issues including the securing of the MH17 crash site and gathering international support to confront Islamic extremism in the Middle East.
But she wasn't always a fan of the idea when it was put forward by the former Labor government.
Here's Ms Bishop's transformation in her own words:
THEN
Sky News, April 10, 2011: "The opposition doesn't support this bid at this time…. we've been concerned in relation to the bid for 2013/2014 from the outset. I can't see any circumstance where we would change."
Sky News, March 3, 2012: "The fact is that our foreign policy resources have been completely skewed to pursuing this seat and there really has been no justification for the benefit that will accrue to Australia by pursuing a seat at this time."
ABC News, October 19,2012: "There is a limit to what can be achieved as a temporary member on the United Nations Security Council."
NOW
New York, September 30, 2015: "Australia's recent experience as a Security Council member confirmed the council's role is more essential than ever."
New York, September 30, 2015: "The period 2029 to 2030, that may seem a long time away but it is appropriate for us to give notice of our intention to campaign for a seat because these are highly competitive campaigns and we don't want to spend unnecessary time and resources trying to campaign at an earlier slot."
New York, September 30, 2015: "Australia made a significant contribution through its temporary position on the Security Council, most noticeably through our advocacy of the downing of MH-17."
New York, September 30, 2015: "Had we not been on the Security Council I doubt very much we would have been able to achieve that unanimous resolution that led to the presence of Australian authorities and Australian Federal Police in Ukraine to recover the bodies and the remains of the Australians killed on that flight."
