By Graeme Dobell*
Executive Summary: Australia is doing a policy pivot to the South Pacific. The headline driving the pivot is the challenge from China. Australia’s deep strategic denial instinct is roused.
Our announced ‘step-up’ is aimed at Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the other island members of the Pacific Islands Forum. (1) Add to that list Timor-Leste, which faces the same problems as the islands and is part of the island arc that has obsessed Australia since before federation. Continue reading the executive summary and the two full insightfully written papers by Journalist Fellow of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
