Henry S. Albinski

Diplomatic Witness. Australian Foreign Affairs, 1941-1947.

The author became Governor-General of Australia after a long record of service as a Cabinet Minister in the portfolios of Territories, Defence and External Affairs. In this book he draws on the experiences during an earlier period of public service as an officer of the Australian Department of External Affairs from 1941 to 1947. It reveals much of the background to war-time administration in Canberra and especially the international side of Australian post-war reconstruction and post-hostilities planning. The development of Australian thinking about defence and foreign affairs during the period is traced and one of the underlying themes is the relationship between minister and public servants in the formation of foreign policy. This book is intended for students and researchers in foreign policy analysis and Australian history.

Negotiating the Pacific century : the 'new' Asia, the United States and Australia

Contributors1 Acknowledgements2 Foreword SIR ERIC MCCLINTOCKSECTION I INTRODUCTION3 Bilateral relations ROGER BELL4 Australian-American relations ROGER BELLSECTION II ECONOMIC CHANGE AND INDUSTRIALISATION5 The rise of China DAVID GOODMAN6 US-Australia Relations and Southeast Asia A. MACINTYRE7 Japans political economy P. JAIN8 Industrialisation and economic change in Korea J. MCKAY9 Whither India MARIKA VICZIANYSECTION III REGIONAL POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE10 Political changes in Asia RICHARD WOOLCOTT11 Economic interdependence in East Asia J. RAVENHILLSECTION IV SECURITY REALIGNMENT12 The New Asia and American policy A. TIDWELL13 Resolving conflicts A. HEYS AND A. TIDWELL14 Weapons proliferation S. CAMBONESECTION V CULTURAL ASSERTIVENESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS15 The Asian ethic J. INGLESON16 Human rights H. HARDING17 Social transformation in Asia J. GELMAN TAYLOR18 Chinese Diaspora N. TRACYSECTI

The Canadian Senate: Politics and The Constitution

“… [M]ost Canadians who are aware of the subject,” says the author of a recent essay, “feel that the [Canadian] Senate has outlived its usefulness and has become a superfluous appendix to the political system. Indeed, the prestige and authority of the Senate has probably fallen to its lowest level in Canadian history.” Considering the disparagements which have been tossed at the Senate, the allusions to “… genial old gentlemen who … live on, undisturbed, meeting a few weeks in the year, bumbling and grumbling at the government, making a few good speeches, and drawing an annual indemnity [now

Dependent ally : a study in Australian foreign policy

10,000] for less work than any other citizens of Canada,” this was a restrained indictment. Nevertheless, in 1961 and early 1962, the Senate was also being extolled in some quarters as the keeper of Canadas conscience. Yet others saw it as a crafty player of rank politics and as an infringer on constitutional propriety. The Prime Minister threatened Senate reform and the injection of Senate misbehavior as an election issue. The Senate had seemingly come to life, and in so doing thrust itself into the center of Canadian political controversy. The purpose of this article is to examine the problems surrounding the position of the Senate in the Canadian political system, through an analysis of the agitated discussions of 1961-62.