Hands across the Indian Ocean? The Hawke Government and Africa

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Title:	Hands across the Indian Ocean? The Hawke Government and Africa
Author:	Goldsworthy, David
Year:	1985
Pages:	16
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Canberra
Publisher:	Burgmann College, Australian National University
Geographic terms:	Africa Australia
Subject:	foreign policy
Abstract:	By comparison with the Whitlam and Fraser Governments, the Hawke Government has shown little interest in Africa and has in some ways sought to downgrade Australia's role in the continent. But certain African issues refuse to go away, in particular apartheid in South Africa and famine in eastern Africa. These issues are at once moral, political and economic, and they arouse strong feelings in the Australian electorate and within the political parties. The Hawke Government's policies towards Africa are a somewhat uneasy reflection of the fact that moral and humanitarian considerations on the one hand, and pragmatic economic and political ones on the other, tend to pull in different directions.