Affair Quote by Gough Whitlam

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our…

— John Howard

Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle…

— Richard Glover

The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.

— John Howard

“Much of Australia's history had been shaped by the contradiction that it depended intimately and comprehensively on a country which was further away that…

— Geoffrey Blainey

Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both…

— Kevin Rudd

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

— Paul Keating

For decades, conventional wisdom in the United States held that it was only a matter of time before China would become more liberal, first…

— Robert C. O'Brien

“Today’s connoisseurs of Sino-American relations seem to view the relationship through a dystopian prism; their gloomy commentaries are largely an assemblage of snapshots on…

— Patrick Mendis

There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia,…

— Shaun Tan

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the…

— Kevin Rudd

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“I love long regarded my country as a secret, as a land half-won, its story half-told. It was as if the past was another…

— John Pilger