Ex-PMs attack Defense White Paper

Malcolm Fraser and Paul Keating, who would have believed it? Both criticize the obscurely Sino-phobic tone of the White Paper and advocate—in place of a more belligerent regionalism, or reliance on the US alliance (for something it is not designed to deliver)—a more effective regional engagement.

Doesn't convince the Colonel Blimps, of course, who imagine that with sufficient expensive and obsolescing weaponry, Australia could run a "totally independent foreign policy" (independent of those pesky foreigners, presumably).

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