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Australian foreign policy is an essential element of the identity of a country caught between Western history and Asian geography. Canberra has accompanied the regional transformations in Asia and the Pacific while maintaining the centrality of the alliance with the United States, which is a defining feature of Australia's international identity. However, the ambition and assertion of power, omnipresent in the speeches of Australian leaders, focus increasingly on the neighbouring countries and the region as a whole. As part of an increasingly coherent and structured regional system, which is imposing its economic, political, strategic and institutional priorities, Australia is developing its influence through a number of roles: Washington's privileged ally, the policeman of the Pacific, a major player in South- East Asia, the sponsor of Asian regionalism or energetic superpower in order to preserve its prosperity and security, which has been the country's priority since its origin. Adapted from the source document.