Myth and Misrepresentation in Australian Foreign Policy.

The authors discuss Australian foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s. The article examines the policies of Sir Robert Menzies and his Liberal-Country Party coalition government between 1949 and 1966 and criticism from the Labor Party. The authors argue that the Menzies government's foreign policy did not actively separate itself from Asia. The article also analyzes the scholarship on Australian political development and foreign policy and Asian public affairs, as well as the diplomatic, political, and economic conditions of Asia during the Cold War. It also discusses Australia's political relationship with India.