OPINION: Since we developed our own foreign policies after World War II, we have never been lazy as international players – but we always tended to run out of puff.
An Australian prime minister who travels is always fair game, a target for those who argue that the leader’s job is to keep the home fires burning and the foreign stuff a glamorous distant second., Anthony Albanese has got his priorities right.AAPThe first is that global tensions and uncertainties – stemming mainly from China-US competition since about 2015 – have accelerated since Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine.
These realities are just for starters. The long-term challenge for Australia is to adapt to them and to future global and regional shifts.Since we developed our own foreign policies after World War II, we have never been lazy as international players. But even in our most active period of external endeavour – essentially the late ’80s until the late ’90s – the big decisions on our security were made in Washington.
What will be the longer-term impact of the reluctance of the developing world to support Western sanctions against Russia? Could these further stimulate a recrudescence of the non-aligned movement? Could such a revival complicate our dealings with countries in the subcontinent and Despite our Indigenous heritage and the inflow of immigrants from Asia and elsewhere, in terms of governance and mores, Australia remains at bedrock an anglophone European country.Yet unlike almost all other countries of comparable size and similar systems, such as Canada or the Netherlands, the countries within our primary foreign policy focus have very different beliefs and systems.
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