The Liberals as managers of the Australian-American alliance.: An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History

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From the author: Only occasionally has the worth of the Australian-American alliance been questioned in Australian politics--and then it has usually been at the expense of the detractors. More important has been the question of how the alliance has been managed. How have Australian governments of the last fifty-four years dealt with features such as the asymmetry of the relationship, in terms of power; the potential disruptions to avoid; the growing range of policy issues and ministerial portfolios to consider; the need for good relations at officials' level; and the need to keep the alliance out of party politics as much as possible? If the Menzies Government began well in the 1950s, then involvement in the Vietnam War was a low-point in the mid-late 1960s, and it took until the 1990s for the Liberals to recover from this. The Howard Government's efforts since the late 1990s, however, have gone a long way towards restoring the Liberals' reputation as effective managers of the alliance.

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Title: The Liberals as managers of the Australian-American alliance.
Author: Peter Edwards
Publication:The Australian Journal of Politics and History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 51 Issue: 3 Page: 451(8)

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