The influential American journal Foreign Affairs has not published an article about Australian foreign policy for fifty years. Prime Minister Menzies was given space in 1965 at the time of Australia’s commitment to the support of the South Vietnamese government. But nothing much since then. This is mainly because, as Owen Harries (formerly editor of the Washington-based the National Interest) put it, Americans needed good peripheral vision to find Australia on the map.
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