Australia has codified government responsibilities to parliament when going to war. The code is set out in a memorandum issued by the Prime Minister’s Department at the end of November. The conventions cover decisions to …
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When the cabinet archives on Australia’s decision to go to war against Iraq appeared on 1 January, the cupboard was astonishingly bare. No formal submission went to cabinet on Australia joining the invasion of Iraq …
Indonesia shapes Australia’s regional dreams and darkens its strategic nightmares. The only constant of the Indonesia effect is the constant shape-shifting of a roller-coaster relationship. A vivid version of the wild ride is the period …
‘The past decade has seen a huge turnaround in Australia’s attitudes towards China. Handling this relationship is unquestionably our biggest foreign policy challenge at present. China is our largest export destination. Approximately 1.4 million Australians …
‘History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.’ — C.V. …