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‘No nation can escape its geography’, warned Percy Spender, Australia’s Minister for External Affairs, in 1950. With the immediate turmoil of World War II over, communism and decolonisation had ended any possibility that Asia could continue to be ignored by Australia. In the early 1950s, Australia e...

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Language:English
Published: ANU Press 2013
Online Access:http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/facing_asia_citation

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