RICHARD Woolcott’s enunciation of Australia’s failure to regain its respectability and importance in the eyes of its immediate neighbours does not go deep enough to make a greater impact on the nation.
Nevertheless, it illustrates an urgent need for the Howard government to review its foreign policy that leans to the United States to the exclusion of overcoming the widespread perception that Australia is now less interested in Asia than it was.
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