If the point is ultimately to make the world a better, safer, saner place, that demands engagement – and to recognise there can be a wrong and a right side of history.
This week, as China signalled its armed aggression in our Indo-Pacific region, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was conveying the awful realities of warfare directly to young Australians.
It was authentic democratic leadership: a readiness to be self-aware and utterly committed, engaging across geography and across generations.
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Professor Rory Medcalf is head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.
