At the tenth anniversary of the decision to commit Australian troops to the Iraq war, this paper reconstructs the previously unknown, and remarkably casual, process by which the Menzies government committed Australian troops to Vietnam. The paper argues that the dismaying similarities between the Australian entries into these two wars strengthen the call for an...

The thirtieth anniversary of the signature of the Australia–Japan Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in 2006 offered an opportunity to review the significance of this event for Australia–Japan relations. Garry Woodard was the leader of the Australian negotiating team that completed the task of concluding the negotiations. Retiring from his career as an Australian...