Australia and the World: Online Take Home Exam

Australia And The World 1
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Australia And The World 2
Part A
1. D) Australia's foreign policy is based on ensuring we have an alliance with a powerful
protector with similar cultural heritage and we pay very little attention in developing any
regional architecture with Asia.
2. D) Australia has made significant progress on all the four strategies of the 1989
Garnaut report.
3. Asians view Australia as a country that is rich just because of dumb luck. A state that
is racist because, in case of any racial matters, there is an uproar by the local citizens. A country
that is selfish especially in international aid and a nation that is moralistic and hypocritical. This
is because they point out other people's behavior forgetting they do not have a clean slate.
4. Some tensions exist in some parts of China, and they are undisputed.
China is more likely to face climate change that may affect its food, energy, and infrastructure.
China has a high population of the elderly which poses a threat to the economy.
China's culture may be a challenge as not many Australian's are familiar with it.
5. The relations between India and Australia have strengthened ever since the Indian
government made the new economic reforms. Also, India formed the Indian Australian in 1995
to enhance the relationship. There was also the formation of the Australia India-New Horizons
solely to promote culture in both countries. India's economic conditions have changed making
Australia pursue the strategy of building a bilateral relationship (Paramati et al., 2018). Australia
and Asia' relationship has grown stronger with growth in the trade sectors in both countries. The
cultures have also improved as more students are learning Asian language and cultures in

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Australia as well as vice versa. Australia has also become the food supplier to Asia thus ensuring
food security in the country.
Part B
1. A) Australia has not been concerned that any threat to Australia would come through
the Indonesian archipelago.
2. A) Indonesia today is not a democracy and does not possess a strong civil society, free
press and does not have fair and direct elections.
3. The two countries have had territorial disagreements, e.g., over East Timor in 1999
that caused tension in both the countries. In 2013, there were accusations that Australian's tapped
the phone of the Indonesian President then which created more tension between the two
countries as well as lack of trust. To strengthen their military relationships, in 2006, the two
countries signed the Lombok Treaty. This was cooperation between the two nations to govern
their security.
Both countries have also joined to help in terrorism financing. This happened in 2015
when they co-hosted the counter-terrorism summit and came up with a risk assessment for
terrorism financing in South East Asia.
4. Some of the challenges that the Australian-Indonesian relationship faces are: The two
countries have a historical past of misunderstandings which, makes it difficult for them to work
together. This also causes the two countries not to be able to trust each other in working together.
Also, Australian's have a negative view of Indonesian's and view them as extremely religious.
This stereotype is a barrier to the formation of good relations (Hamid & Kirkpatrick, 2016).