Bill Hayden would barely recognise the words dripping from the tongues of today’s Labor leaders when it comes to America.
His passing offers an opportunity to revisit how he, Paul Keating, Gareth Evans and Bob Hawke fashioned in that era a new settling point for relations with Washington, where room was preserved for a more self-reliant defence and foreign policy within the alliance.
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James Curran is The Australian Financial Review’s International Editor and professor of modern history at Sydney University.
