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Human Rights, Australian Values and Australian Foreign Policy – What is Our Role in the World? (27 July 2010)

Of the myriad issues inadequately covered in the 2010 Federal Election campaign, the issues as to Australian values and identity, and how these values shape the way we understand our role and responsibility in the world, must figure high. In the leaders’ debate, for example, the only discussion of Australian foreign policy and our place in the world arose in the context of the ‘Timor Solution’ and the war in Afghanistan.

This is not the way things should be.  With real leadership, elections present an opportunity to tap into admirable but often latent aspects of national identity, a concept explored by Canadian political scientist Alison Brysk in her new book, Global Good Samaritans: Human Rights as Foreign PolicyRead More…

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