Senator Willessee, Australia’s special Minister of State, has just attended the eighteenth Annual Council meeting of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO), established in 1955 and originally including eight member countries: the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, the US, UK, France, Australia and New Zealand. The military pact.
The conduct of Australia’s foreign policy under the Rudd and Gillard governments was anything but inspiring. Under Tony Abbott, we have so far been treated to a succession of gaffes bordering on farce.
The course considered some of the most pressing questions facing the Australian Islamic community, including the question of terrorism, the ‘war on terror’, and the so-called ‘clash of civilisations’. Is such a clash the cause of the dramatic events we witness at the local through to the global levels, or are there less emotive yet more critical factors that must be understood?
A series of 10-week and 6-week courses offered each year with the aim of developing better community understanding of the dynamics of a rapidly globalising world and Australia's place in it.
Each year the course attracted between 35 and 70 participants, most of them working in education, government, the professions, media, and religious and community organisations, as well as a number of students.
Max Teichmann, Joseph A. Camilleri, C. P. Fitzgerald, Ian Cummins and Astri Suhrke, Powers and Policies: Alignments and Realignments in the Indo-Pacific Region, Melbourne, Cassell Australia, 1970
Michael Seigel and Joseph A. Camillleri, Caught between Multilateralism and Alliance: Japan and Australia at a Crossroads (Japanese edition), Tokyo: Kokusai Shoin, 2006, 305 pp.
Joseph A. Camilleri, “Foreign Policy: Strategic and Economic Dimensions”, in From Fraser to Hawke, Australian Public Policy in the 1980s, edited by Brian W. Head and Allan Patience, Melbourne, Longman Cheshire, 1989, pp 37-65.
Joseph A. Camilleri, 'Asia-Pacific Multilateralism: Australian perceptions and priorities', in Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee (ed), Towards an Era of Cooperation: An Indo-Australian dialogue, New Delhi: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 1995, pp. 281-304.
