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Book Launch and Conversation: Clinton Fernandes and Bernard Collaery</p>
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<i>Island off the Coast of Asia: Instruments of Statecraft in Australian Foreign Policy</i> (Monash University Publishing, 2018) is an unprecedented 230-year Australian study that reveals the central role of economic actors in defining and pursuing the ‘national
interest’. Australia’s search for security has meant much more than protection from military invasion. It includes the security of economic interests, and the pursuit of a political order that secures them. This view of security has deep roots in Australia’s
geopolitical tradition. Australia began its existence on the winning side of a worldwide confrontation between imperial powers and the rest of the world. The book shows that the ‘organising principle’ of Australian foreign policy is to stay on the winning
side of the global contest. Australia has pursued this principle in war and peace, using the full arsenal of diplomacy, law, investment, research, negotiations, military force and espionage. This book uses many decades of secret files to reveal the inner workings
of high-level policy. </p>
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Clinton Fernandes is a Professor of International and Political Studies at UNSW and a former Australian Army officer. The book will be launched by Bernard Collaery, respected Canberra lawyer, lawyer for Witness K, and former legal adviser to the Government
of Timor- Leste, who received the Civil Australian Lawyer of the Year Award in 2018.
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To register for this event please email <a href="mailto:susan.connelly@sosj.org.au">
susan.connelly@sosj.org.au</a></p>
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Event details </p>
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When: Saturday 13 April 3:00pm – 5:00pm </p>
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Where:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>O’Regan Arts and Cultural Common Theatre<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
128 Miller Street, North Sydney </p>
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Cost:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Free
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More information: <a href="http://justly.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Fernandes-Book-launch-flyer.pdf">
http://justly.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Fernandes-Book-launch-flyer.pdf</a></p>
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