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The Echidna Strategy

Australia's Search for Power and Peace

By: Sam Roggeveen

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The Echidna Strategy

Australia's Search for Power and Peace

By: Sam Roggeveen

In the wake of a shift in the global power balance, how can Australia best protect itself? The Echidna Strategy overturns the conventional wisdom about Australia's security. Australia will need to defend itself without American help, but this doesn't need to cost more. The truth, which no Australian political leader is willing to confront, is that America's security is not threatened by China's rise. Once we accept that conclusion, the entire edifice on which our security has been built crumbles, and we need to start afresh. Yet, despite the rapid growth of China's military, defending Australia need not be particularly difficult. Our leaders insist on making it expensive and hard. Even worse, in the name of the US alliance, they expose our country to more danger. The Echidna Strategy sheds new light on the contest for leadership in Asia and the strategy Australia needs to thrive. This includes a radically different approach to defence. Above all, it means a bolder Australian foreign policy, with three goals: leadership in the Pacific; a much stronger relationship with Indonesia; and a regional order centred on a gathering of its great powers. 'Essential reading for anyone interested in our nation's security in an uncertain world where the enduring supremacy of the United States cannot be assumed or assured.' ––Malcolm Turnbull 'Here is a voice, bold in its conclusions and forensic in its logic, which defies the echo chamber of current strategic policy.' ––Peter Varghese

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La Trobe University Press

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The Echidna Strategy

Australia's Search for Power and Peace

By: Sam Roggeveen

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Australia's Search for Power and Peace

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Our Very Own Brexit: Australia’s Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us

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Our Very Own Brexit: Australia’s Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us

By: Sam Roggeveen

Could Australia have a Brexit moment? There is a rarely spoken truth at the heart of Australian politics: it is dominated by two parties that voters no longer care about. Around the democratic West, the public is drifting away from major parties, and politics is becoming hollow. In Europe, populists have been the beneficiaries. In Britain, the result was Brexit. Australian politics is hollow too. One of our deciding parties could, in desperation, exploit an issue that ties Australia to Asia and which will determine out future security: immigration.

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Random House Australia

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1760894605

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Our Very Own Brexit: Australia’s Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us

Our Very Own Brexit: Australia’s Hollow Politics and Where It Could Lead Us

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