As global issues drive regional security concerns, the country also has to balance its defence priorities with domestic pressures
, mocking those seeking to bolster defence. After all, why would you want to challenge your largest trading partner? Yet the jocularity belies a more complex challenge for a nation struggling to reconcile 10 points of tension, or dialectics. These help explain why this review was written.As a predominantly Anglo-spheric nation on the edge of Asia, for more than a century Australia has looked successively for security ties to the UK and the US along with its other.
As for geography, engagement with south-west Pacific and south-east Asian neighbours has been patchy and spasmodic. In some respects many Anglo-European Australians prefer to skip over the neighbourhood on their way to America or Europe. Few speak regional languages fluently. Yet the neighbourhood has always mattered, particularly at times of heightened power struggles.
At such times, the Five Eyes intelligence arrangements have contributed to understanding the region but, ironically, have also contributed to a tension between Australia’s history and geography. With global climate change also driving regional concerns, Australia rightly is emphasising further Pacific engagement, but from a low base. More than defence engagement is required, in response to regional strategic and environmental concerns.
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