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Is diplomacy necessary?(War for the Asking: How Australia Invited Itself to Vietnam)
War for the Asking: How Australia Invited Itself to Vietnam, by Michael Sexton (new edition); New Holland, 2002, $24.95.
AUSTRALIA SPENDS a very large amount of money maintaining a substantial number of public servants from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in foreign countries. In this age of benchmarking and performance indicators the question naturally arises as to whether this is worthwhile. If the history of Australia's foreign policy in the second half of the last century is evaluated dispassionately the answer has got to be a pretty clear No.
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