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Brave new Liberal : Percy Spender

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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by David LoweDavid Lowe
Percy Spender's pioneering work as External Affairs Minister is often held up as a significant contribution to Liberal policy-making and Australian foreign policy more generally. A closer look at his life and thinking illuminates some of the factors behind his policy-making. Some of the more prominent, shaping factors can be organised under the headings of his overseas travels before becoming External Affairs Minister at the end of 1949; his sense that the mid-twentieth period was one in which Asia suddenly played a big role; and his determination that Australians should be proactive in their relations in their region, rather than merely reactive in foreign policy.

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Journal

Australian journal of politics and history

Volume

51

Issue

3

Pagination

389 - 399

Publisher

University of Queensland Press

Location

Brisbane, Qld.

ISSN

0004-9522

eISSN

1467-8497

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2005, Department of History, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

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