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Facing North is the first substantial history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation. Volume 1 chronicles Australian-Asian relations from 1901 to the 1970s and Volume 2 (in preparation) will carry the story through the last decades of the century just ended. Both make extensive use of official government sources and of the private collections of ministers and public servants. Debate about engagement with Asia is not a recent pheno...

When Britain's sprawling empire wound down with unexpected speed in the 1960s, Australia lost a comforting 'security blanket'. We had to struggle to re-establish and protect ourselves in a volatile and threatening world. Australia's interests in empire had taken many forms-strategic, economic, cultural and psychological. Indeed Australia had used British experience as a template for its own 'mini-imperialism', in Papua and New Guinea for examp...

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This is a complex account of the challenges that Australia has faced since the Federation in relation to Asian realities. This history explains major changes in official Australian policies toward Asia as well as broader cultural challenges. It explains events of the past in an effort to increase understanding of Australia's present relations with Asia and to anticipate the choices in Asian policy that Australia will face in the future. Making...