Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- About the AIIA
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Australian responses to great-power rivalry
- Part I The domestic politics of Australian foreign policy
- 2 The foreign policy process
- 3 Australian public opinion on world affairs
- 4 Values, gender and foreign policy
- 5 Countering foreign interference
- 6 Asian Australians, foreign policy and identity in Australia
- Part II Global issues
- Part III Regional issues
- Index
6 - Asian Australians, foreign policy and identity in Australia
from Part I - The domestic politics of Australian foreign policy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Preface
- About the AIIA
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Australian responses to great-power rivalry
- Part I The domestic politics of Australian foreign policy
- 2 The foreign policy process
- 3 Australian public opinion on world affairs
- 4 Values, gender and foreign policy
- 5 Countering foreign interference
- 6 Asian Australians, foreign policy and identity in Australia
- Part II Global issues
- Part III Regional issues
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that in the period under review, Australia’s foreign-policymaking faced a number of challenges, most notably in its handling of bilateral relations with China, which took a significant turn for the worse. Unfortunately, this was also a time when Australians of Chinese heritage made little contribution to foreign policy. Despite Australia’s multicultural identity and a professed embrace of the strength and diversity of its growing migrant populations, low numbers of Chinese Australians were working in government and politics. By drawing on data from the 2019 Lowy Institute Poll on Australian attitudes towards the world, this chapter argues that Asian Australians had different views on foreign policy compared to those born in Australia. If Australia is to truly embrace its growing migrant population to engage confidently with its Asian neighbours, the chapter concludes, the views of Asian Australians in political debates and policymaking matters need to be formally recognised through greater representation.
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- Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020A Return to Great-Power Rivalry, pp. 76 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024