Boris Johnson’s Australian charm offensive will not unscramble the egg. Nor will seeking to love-up the old Commonwealth after divorcing Europe change what Professor Goldsworthy has described as a lingering sense of ‘a sort of betrayal of Australia’ resulting from its 1973 EEC nuptials. When knocking back Britain’s two-year long attempt to join the Common Market back in the early 1960s, President de Gaulle believed that ‘Perfidious Albion’s’ attempt to get a special deal for the Commonwealth was really aimed at destroying the six-member union from within.
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