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Rudd On Foreign Policy: Prosperity Linked To Our Place In The World

Aug 27, 2013

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered what will probably be his last major speech on Australian foreign policy to the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

Just eleven days out from the election, Rudd told his audience that jobs are at the heart of the ALP’s policy agenda.

Rudd

He said: “As much as our economic prosperity depends on what we do at home, it is absolutely dependent on our ability to engage fully with the world – through our global economic diplomacy, our political diplomacy both in Australia and at the UN, as well as the best management of our security policy footprint in our immediate region. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2013 Federal Election, A.L.P., Audio, Australia, Rudd, Video Tagged With: , , ,

Labor And The World: Mark Latham Outlines Opposition Foreign Policy

Apr 07, 2004

Opposition Leader Mark Latham has addressed the Lowy Institute, outlining the ALP’s foreign policy.

Latham said “the world which the next Labor Government will confront is very different from the world the last Labor Government faced”. With the Cold War over, “we have entered this new century with a single strategic and political superpower, the United States.”

Economic globalisation is “another equally important force..transforming the world”, Latham said. “It is blurring the traditional distinctioms between domestic and foreign policy.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: A.L.P., ANZUS, Foreign Policy - Aust, Iraq-Afghanistan Tagged With: , , , , , ,

Downer On Advancing The National Interest: Australia’s Foreign Policy Challenge

May 07, 2002

This is the text of a speech delivered by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Alexander Downer.

The speech is part of the process established by the government leading to the publication of a new White Paper on Australia’s foreign and trade policy.

An earlier White Paper, In The National Interest, was published in 1997. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Audio, Foreign Policy - Aust, Howard, Trade Tagged With: , , , ,

Downer: Australia’s Place In The World

Nov 26, 1996

This is the text of an Address by Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the NSW Division of the Liberal Party, in Sydney.

Downer outlined the government’s approach to foreign policy in its first nine months in office. He talked about Malaysia, multilateral and bilateral relations, trade and immigration.

Text of speech by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to the NSW Liberal Party.

Alexander Downer, Minister for Foreign AffairsINTRODUCTION

Many thanks for the invitation to address you today.

I am delighted for the opportunity to speak about Australia’s “place in the world” and our foreign policy priorities.

This Government has a vision for Australia in the 21st century as a cooperative, economically competitive and secure nation, fully engaged with the East Asian region, while maintaining and developing links with countries beyond the region.

When we came into office almost nine months ago, we had a detailed policy, appropriately entitled A Confident Australia, which embodied this vision. [Read more…]

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