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There has long been consensus the ANZUS treaty is a security guarantee for Australia, that it makes Australia safer.
But as the treaty turns 70 today, Emma Shortis argues this is not the case.
Rather, she writes, the treaty — and Australia’s relationship with the US more broadly — fuels a belief of perpetual military threat, which can only be countered with military might.
This is holding Australia back from engaging more genuinely with the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.
This doesn’t mean scrapping the treaty, Shortis says, but forging a new relationship with the US that is not, in the words of one former US president, "sealed with blood”.
Meanwhile, Michelle Grattan looks at the current state of the US-Australia relationship and asks why it’s taken so long for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to speak one-on-one with US President Joe Biden.
Possibly, the Biden administration is frustrated with the Coalition’s tardiness in signing up to a more ambitious climate change agenda, or perhaps Australia is just not high in Biden’s consciousness at the moment.
Still, Grattan says, it’s worth asking the question: why is Morrison not further forward in the foreign queue for presidential attention?
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Justin Bergman
Senior Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Emma Shortis, RMIT University
The current US-Australia strategic relationship requires an enemy – a “common danger”. As a result, Australia doesn’t seek cooperation with the Asia-Pacific region, it arms itself instead.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The eve of ANZUS turning 70 is an opportunity to re-examine Australia’s relation with the Biden administration, writes Michelle Grattan.
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Health + Medicine
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Environment + Energy
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Anthony Burke, UNSW; Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney
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Arts + Culture
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Matthew Wade, La Trobe University; Catherine Palmer, University of Tasmania; Kevin Filo, Griffith University; Nicholas Hookway, University of Tasmania
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Jonathan Benjamin, Flinders University; Chelsea Wiseman, Flinders University; John McCarthy, Flinders University; Peter Jeffries, Indigenous Knowledge; Sean Ulm, James Cook University
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Kalinda Griffiths, UNSW
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Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
New Zealand continues to pursue an elimination strategy to stamp out community infections with the Delta variant. But it will need incentives and some degree of compulsion to raise vaccination rates.
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Ausma Bernot, Griffith University; Alexander Trauth-Goik, University of Wollongong; Sue Trevaskes, Griffith University
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