Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Foreign and defence policy
time, Australian policy making has become increasingly ‘presidential’, with greater
power invested in the office of PM&C and increasingly ‘securitised’ through the
operation of multiple new or strengthened security/intelligence organs, mentioned
above. Shifts in the international environment and the domestic policy-making
terraininAustraliawillcombinetoshapehowforeignpolicyisdirectedinan
uncertain future, full of ‘wicked’ problems – i.e. challenges that defy easy resolution,
and often demand co-ordinated ‘whole of government’ responses. And yet Andrew
Phillips reminds us that ‘Australians have also proved remarkably adept in adjusting
to changing international circumstances’. 79 Time will tell.
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