Facilitating Defence Trade Between Australia and the United States:
A Vital Work in Progress
Author: Robert Wylie
Volume 4, Number 3 (Spring 2008), pp. 115-134.
Abstract
The Australia-United States Treaty on Defense Trade Cooperation is a timely innovation. But the Australian Government and its advisers need to do much more work to balance the divergent Australian interests involved appropriately and to maximize the Treaty’s net benefits to Australia. The Federal Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties has a key role to play in ensuring the Executive arm of government does this work.
About the Author
Robert Wylie lectures in public policy making at the Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales. He is indebted to Roland Trope and Dr Monique Witt, who drew his attention to much of the US material. He remains solely responsible for any errors of fact and interpretation. r.wylie@adfa.edu.au.
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