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End the condescension to start new era with Indonesia


End the condescension to start new era with Indonesia
Canberra either ignores or needlessly provokes Jakarta. This must stop if our vital near north neighbour is to play a bigger role in countering China in the region.
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In 1986, the head of the newly merged Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Stuart Harris, argued that Australia is “an isolated country in the sense that there is a lack of regional links; there is no region or grouping to which we belong naturally, and no easy alliances that are immediately of use to us”.
That quest for belonging found an answer in Bob Hawke’s creation of APEC in 1989, then with Paul Keating’s elevation of that forum to a leader’s summit. Subsequent governments, albeit with different emphases, likewise made regional engagement their watchword. ....

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