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Is too much political capital being put into meaningless foreign policy platitudes rather than defining what modern Australian security looks like?
If Australia's shared values with its allies are contradicted can we still rely on those principles to steer policy with them?
Can Australia take a globally prominent position in petitioning the US to end the wars that fundamentally threaten Australia's national security?
On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Allan Behm — a 30-year veteran of the Australian Public Service across defence, diplomacy and the Attorney-General's Department, and a former senior adviser to now-Foreign Minister Penny Wong — joins Professor Mark Kenny to discuss his new book, New Game, New Rules: A Foreign Policy for Dystopian Times, and why breaking Australia's "stranglehold of dependency" starts with an honest reckoning with our own identity.
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Allan Behm is the Advisor with the Australia Institute’s International and Security Affairs Program, an author and a former senior Australian public servant and political adviser.
Mark Kenny is the Director of the Australian Studies Institute. He came to the Australian National University after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.
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