Australian Foreign Policy
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http://www.dfat.gov.au/media/speeches/department/010629_deptsec.html
Speech by the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade,
Dr Ashton Calvert, to the University of Sydney conference, The United States
Alliance and East Asian Security Intranet
Link
http://www.southsearepublic.org/story/2004/10/5/215658/854
Australia is facing a federal election on October 9th with the two main parties having little to separate them in domestic and economic policy. Where the Liberal and Labor parties differ greatly is in foreign policy. The Liberal Party adheres to the "Great and Powerful Friends" doctrine while the Labor Party pursues the doctrine of "Asian Engagement". Intranet Link
http://john.curtin.edu.au/artofthepossible/index.html
Responding to John Curtin's charge in October 1938 that 'the Government had no policy on foreign affairs', Attorney General Robert Menzies decisively stated there was no possibility for such a development: IntraLink
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/malcolmfraser/speeches/nonparliamentary/liberalsforeignpolicy.html
In the beginning, Australia was very much child of Empire. In the First World War, when Britain went to war, we also went to war. In these years, Australia had no defence or foreign policy, although Deakin believed that constituent parts of the Empire should be given an effective voice in Empire affairs. Our only representation was in London itself. IntraLink
http://announce.curtin.edu.au/release2004/c1705.html
Under John Curtin's skilled and pragmatic leadership, Australia refused to see itself as a colonial outpost serving British interests and forged its own direction in foreign policy," he said.
"This shift in thinking has helped shape Australia's foreign policy as we know it today." Intralink
http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2003/04/dalrymple.html
28 April 2003 Symposium: Advancing the National Interest?Looking for theory in Australian foreign policy
Rawdon Dalrymple, University of Sydney. Intralink
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-5850%28195107%2927%3A3%3C312%3AAFP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4&size=LARGE
http://www.nautilus.org/~rmit/forum-reports/0616a-jones.html
http://www.eteachers.com.au/Samples/int/Sec/HistStims/1971ChinaStimulus.htm
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2931431.html
http://www.international-relations.com/wbip/wblec2.htm
The Indo-Pacific Region 2: Copyright R. James
Ferguson 2000, 2001
INTR13-305 & INTR71/72-305, The Department of International Relations,
SHSS, Bond University, Queensland, Australia
2. Australian Foreign Policy - From Commonwealth Servant
to Regional Player
Topics: -
1. Elements of Foreign Policy
2. Australia's Foreign Relations Culture in the 1990s
3. The APEC Process and Australian Multilateralism
4. A Suitable Foreign Policy for a Middle Power?
5. Bibliography and Further Reading
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/09/1026185042212.html
Howard's pro-Bush policies
need balance - Intranet
By Laurie Brereton July 10 2002
John Howard has brought about a quiet revolution in Australia's foreign and defence policies. Australia's international engagement has become seriously unbalanced, with an excessive focus on the United States alliance. Once again, a Coalition government has chosen the path of diplomatic and strategic dependence.
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http://www.okusi.net/garydean/works/index.html
The Development of Australian Foreign Policy - Gary Dean, April 1999
Reference:
http://www.okusi.net/garydean/works/afp.html
It only been these past few decades that Australia has begun to pursue a relatively independent foreign policy, from under the shadows Britain and the US. Australia's unique historical circumstances have led to the development of a certain set of attitudes and characteristics that underlie its foreign relation's behaviour. Among other characteristics there has been a dependency syndrome, first with Britain, and then with the US, an acute sense of geographic isolation from the European cultural hearthlands and a corresponding sense of threat from Asia, and an attempt to identify and project an Australian identity to the outside world.
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Globalisation and the Nation-State
Gary Dean, October 1998 Intranet
Reference: http://www.okusi.net/garydean/works/globalisation.html
It is frequently alleged that the nation-state in the 1990's is at a precarious moment of history, poised to somehow inevitably disintegrate under the pressure of globalisation. It has been a mere decade since this word 'globalisation' started to infiltrate the everyday language of nations worldwide. And like many new catchwords which suddenly enter a language, it's precise meaning can be lost or obscured in amongst the new, exciting and often stimulating concepts which orbit about it; Internet, Free Trade, Borderless World, Information Superhighway, and many others.
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Australia's Place and Influence
in Asia
Gary Dean, June 2000 Intranet
Reference: http://www.okusi.net/garydean/works/OzInAsia.html
Since the very beginning of a notion called 'Australia' some 200 years ago,
the European occupiers of this continent have rarely felt at peace with its
geography. As a transplanted, predominantly European, society situated within
Asia,[1] far from the homelands-of-the-heart in Europe, Australians have always
felt an acute sense of threat from the north. Profound differences with the
nations of Asia exist in nearly every respect: race, history, culture, social
structure, and population size and density. Within this region, Australia
is truly an oddity; it really doesn't fit. Separated by vast distances from
the other rich, English-speaking, mainly-white, 'Echelon' nations (Britain,
the US, and Canada), Australians feel an acute sense of isolation in this
region, like a 'continent adrift'.[2]
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Security and Australia's
involvement in the world
Gary Dean, May 1999 Intranet
Reference: http://www.okusi.net/garydean/works/ozsecurity.html
Australians have always felt uncertain about their place in the world. As a transplanted, predominantly European, society situated within Asia, Australians have always felt a sense of threat from the north. Profound differences with the nations of East Asia exist in nearly every respect: race, history, culture, social structure and population density. Within this region, Australia is truly an oddity. It should be no surprise, therefore, that security issues have always dominated Australian foreign policy. Separated by vast distances from other rich, English-speaking, and predominantly white, nations such as Britain, the US, and Canada, Australians feel an acute sense of isolation in this region, like a 'continent adrift'[1], or a mere 'province of the English-speaking world'.[2]
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http://www.4freeessays.com/essays/2182.shtmlAustralian Foreign
Policy
Essay written by Melissa O - Intranet
What is Foreign Policy?
Foreign Policy is a nations' attitude, actions (ie economic sanctions, peacekeeping,
military activity) as well as our dealings with other countries (ie trade,
immigration, aid, defence) and anything that is directed towards preserving
and furthering certain national interests. Foreign Policy seeks to maintain
national security, promote economic and trade interests, expand regional and
global links, and promote the nation as a good global citizen.
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http://members.aol.com/Eamonev/LABRTRAD.htm
THE LABOR TRADITION IN AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY - Intranet
Keynote address by Senator Gareth Evans, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to
The Labor Tradition in Australian Foreign Policy Symposium, ANU, Canberra,
5 December 1994
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Australian Foreingn Policy - Global Issues - Intranet
http://www.dfat.gov.au/globalissues/
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/oct1999/pol-o14_prn.shtml - Intranet
East Timor provokes Australian foreign policy crisis - By Linda Tenenbaum
- 14 October 1999
Less than a month after it began, Australia's
military deployment into East Timor has provoked rising political tensions
and a profound crisis in foreign policy. The intensifying pressures exploded
last week in a public slanging match between current Australian Prime Minister
John Howard and his immediate predecessor, the former Labor Prime Minister,
Paul Keating.
Keating blamed Howard for "the worst foreign policy disaster since the
Vietnam War". The massacres carried out by the Indonesian army-backed
militia gangs against the East Timorese people were caused, Keating declared,
by the failure of the Australian government's strategy.
"[John Howard] wanted to be the independence bringer to East Timor. All
he has brought them is tears and grief."
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