Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper marks the return of geography to defence planning. Not that it had ever entirely disappeared, although Defence Minister Robert Hill at times tried his best to ridicule the importance of geography and persuade the Cabinet that the Middle East was of greater strategic importance than the defence of Australia. Prime Minister John Howard was fully alert to the domestic political dangers of such positions and promptly sent Hill off to be Australia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
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