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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11200009" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/20100805raaf8540652_0132.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 HornetEIGHT FA-18 Hornet jet fighters,  Blackhawk helicopters and the elite SAS will be guarding Perth this week  as Julia Gillard hosts the largest-ever gathering of world leaders in  Australia.                               More than 40 prime ministers and presidents will be in WA for the  Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and associated summits.The Queen, who will attend on Friday, called for leaders to "find new ways to bring about positive change''.Human rights activists, refugee supporters, the Greens and students are among those planning to protest outside the meeting. But  there could be sparks inside with human rights abuses in Commonwealth  countries, particularly Sri Lanka which is scheduled to host the next  CHOGM in 2013, shaping up as a key test for the future of the  organisation.Canada's PM Stephen Harper says he will boycott the  2013 meeting if Sri Lanka does not make progress on the issue of human  rights.Australia has expressed concern directly to Sri Lanka about reports  of human rights abuses and civilian deaths at the end of that country's  civil war.A spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd  said Australia had called on the United Nations' Human Rights Council to  seriously look at allegations of war crimes and wanted Sri Lanka to  address the findings of a top-level UN report.Former High Court  judge Michael Kirby is one of 11 eminent persons who have prepared a  report on the future of the Commonwealth. Leaks have suggested the top  secret report warns the Commonwealth is in danger of losing its  relevance unless it finds a better way to take action against its own  members who violate core values such as human rights.Ms Gillard  said she hoped reforms would "strengthen the Commonwealth's ability to  promote and uphold the values of democracy, the rule of law and human  rights among its membership''."The Commonwealth has an  opportunity - by virtue of its strengths- to carve out a new role for  itself in the world and add real value to efforts to improve global  governance and strengthen the rules-based global order,'' she said.Ms  Gillard says she will use the meeting to discuss ways to strengthen  food security, combat communicable diseases and ensure sustainable  development of resources.Ms Gillard said the Commonwealth was a  unique organisation with a diverse mix of economies, faiths and cultures  that brings together nations from six continents who account for  one-third of the world's population and one-fifth of global trade.While  the PMs from India and New Zealand are not attending and Fiji is  suspended, CHOGM will attract leaders from countries such as Nigeria,  Rwanda, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, Malaysia and South Africa.Britain's  Conservative Party PM David Cameron is expected to make his first trip  to Australia, and Ms Gillard will discuss climate change with him after  he wrote to her in July supporting the carbon tax package.It is  costing Australia $59 million to host the meeting that also includes a  gathering of 1000 Commonwealth business leaders and 130 youth leaders.heraldsun</blockquote>

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