Opinion

Nic Stuart | We've never been closer to Washington than today

Nicholas Stuart
Updated November 7 2022 - 5:05pm, first published 5:30am
The depth of this military integration makes any pretension that we could somehow maintain a policy separate from Washington's quite farcical. Picture by Elesa Kurtz
The depth of this military integration makes any pretension that we could somehow maintain a policy separate from Washington's quite farcical. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

A couple of months after the election, Penny Wong gave a speech to her department describing her vision for Foreign Affairs. She urged her diplomats to be ambitious for the country, act creatively and, importantly, bring foreign affairs "back to the centre of ... government". Her vision was that Australia would be much "more than just (a) supporting player in the grand drama of global geopolitics".

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Nicholas Stuart

Nicholas Stuart is a Canberra writer.

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