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Dangerous Allies examines Australia’s history of strategic dependence and questions the continuation of this position. Malcolm Fraser argues that Australia should adopt a much greater degree of independence in foreign policy, and that we should no longer follow other nations into wars of no direct interest to Australia. He argues for an end to strategic dependence and for a truly independent Australia.
Malcolm Fraser served as Australia’s 22nd Prime Minister from 1975 until he resigned from federal politics in 1983 after 28 years as the Federal Member for Wannon. He held several ministries during his time in Parliament, including Minister for the Army, Minister of State for Defence and Minister for Education and Science. Since leaving government Mr Fraser was Co-chairman of the Commonwealth Committee of Eminent Persons in 1986, formed to encourage reform in South Africa. He served as Chairman of CARE Australia from 1987 until 2001, and President of CARE International from 1990 to 1995. He was a foundation Board Member of the International Crisis Group from 1996 to 2000 and has served as a Senior Advisor there since. In 2011 he became a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. Mr Fraser has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia and received the President’s Gold Medal for Humanitarian Service from B’nai B’rith International, as well as the Australian Human Rights Medal from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Cain Roberts is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne’s School of Social and Political Science. His research interests span both the international relations and public policy fields within political science.
“we are America’s serf” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/25/tony-abbott-trade-freedom-security#show-all – “we are America’s serf”
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Robert Menzies was Prime Minister of Australia for more than 20 years (first from 1939 to 1943, then from 1949 to 1966). On 3 September 1939 he announced that Australia was at war with Germany, as follows:
“Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially, that in consequence of a persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war upon her and that, as a result, Australia is also at war.”
The sacrifcal Lamb