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The refusal by both the Labor and Liberal/Country Party (LCP) governments of Australia in 1949 and afterwards to recognize the new communist regime in China caused much speculation at the time. Using documents recently opened in British and Australian archives the paper explores why, for separate reasons, both the Labor and the LCP governments reacted the way they did, why the LCP government did not modify its policy in respect of the PRC when the Korean war ended and what light the documents so far opened throw on how and why China became the major threat for Australian leaders in the 1960s. (DÜI-Sen)

The major rift in the ANZUS alliance caused by New Zealand's ban on the visits of nuclear armed and powered warships and Australian response to this rift. Australian government assistance in the testing of American MX missiles. Attitudes of the Australian government and of the two major parties of the country towards peace and disarmament. The issue of nuclear energy in Australia. Australian dilemma regarding tension on Papua New Guinean and Indonesian border. Australian aid to Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, El Salvador etc. Brief review of Australia's economic and trade policy. (DÜI-Sen)