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
- Part II Global issues
- Part III Regional issues
- 11 Reimagining Australia’s regional security for the Indo-Pacific century
- 12 Australia’s security interests in South-East Asia and the Pacific
- 13 Australia’s engagement with ASEAN
- 14 Australian foreign economic policy and the Belt and Road controversy
- Index
13 - Australia’s engagement with ASEAN
Singapore as a conduit
from Part III - Regional issues
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
- Part II Global issues
- Part III Regional issues
- 11 Reimagining Australia’s regional security for the Indo-Pacific century
- 12 Australia’s security interests in South-East Asia and the Pacific
- 13 Australia’s engagement with ASEAN
- 14 Australian foreign economic policy and the Belt and Road controversy
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores Australia’s engagement with South-East Asia during the period under review by focusing on its partnership with Singapore. In the period under review, what former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull termed a ‘natural’ partnership showed signs of becoming an increasingly important conduit for Canberra’s engagement with the region, hitherto an under-realised one. With Australia looking to deepen its ties with South-East Asia and ASEAN more broadly, Canberra’s partnership with Singapore went some way towards realising this goal.
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- Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020A Return to Great-Power Rivalry, pp. 174 - 187Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024