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Albanese reaches for Keating’s Asian mantle

In a speech that canvassed all the issues on his foreign policy plate, there was one section that stood out.

James Curran
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The prime minister’s major foreign policy speech in Sydney on Tuesday night placed a capstone on his government’s approach to the world since it came to office in May last year.

It was also probably his most emphatic articulation yet of the Labor tradition in foreign policy and its grounding in Australia’s history and position in Asia.

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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.

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