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Government hasn’t matched Keating’s Indonesia pact
The new defence agreement with Jakarta is a welcome development, but the government claims too much too soon about its place in history.
James CurranInternational editorDefence Minister Richard Marles will soon sign a defence co-operation agreement with Jakarta: an unequivocally positive development for Australian foreign policy.
Last week’s press conference with the visiting Indonesian president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, offered a compelling picture of Labor’s foreign policy tradition.
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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
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