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Title: Australia as a Global Citizen


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Australia as a Global Citizen
  • Daryl Le Cornu
  • Mount Annan High School

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DARYL.LECORNU_at_education.nsw.gov.au
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Some Teaching Ideas
  • Students to do research using texts and online
    resources
  • Individual task or group work?
  • Students give presentations to class using ICT?
  • Prepare students to write to a scaffold knowing
    key facts in each area
  • Debate Australias role as global citizen

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Is Australia punching above its weight as a
global citizen?
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Punching above our own weight?
  • What does this mean?
  • This term was used a few years ago to describe
    Australias role in the world as a middle
    power.

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What is a middle power?
  • a term used in the field of international
    relations to describe states that are not
    superpowers or great powers, but still have large
    or moderate influence and international
    recognition.

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Australias Ranking
  • Australia leaps in economic rankings.doc
  • Austs_ranking.doc

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Australias Self-Image
  • A mature democracy
  • Rule of law
  • Multicultural success story
  • Economically competitive
  • Militarily allied to a hyper-power - USA
  • Politically we seem to have some clout
  • Going well now but can we stand on our own in the
    future?

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Punching above our own weight?
  • Australia impressed other nations with its
    swift response to the crisis in East Timor in
    1999
  • and
  • in military intervention and peacekeeping in
    many locations in the following years.

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Punching above our own weight?
  • This can be considered
  • EITHER
  • A good thing because we are making a significant
    positive contribution in the world
  • OR
  • A matter of concern because we are
    over-stretching ourselves as a nation, and cannot
    sustain such an effort given our population and
    the size and growing power of our Asian
    neighbours

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Punching above our own weight?
  • To consider this question we need to examine
    in what ways that Australia has participated as a
    global citizen in the past.
  • Then
  • We can consider whether Australia is
    involving itself in an appropriate way for a
    middle power today.

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Alliances
Individuals
Treaties
Australia as a Global Citizen
Regional Organisations
United Nations
Peacekeeping
Humanitarian Relief
Military Action
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1. Alliances
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ANZUS
  • Members Australia, New Zealand the United
    States
  • Signed 1951
  • 1st reason originally as a US guarantee that
    Japan would not threaten Australia and NZ again
  • 2nd reason in recognition of swift Austn
    support in the Korean War (1950)
  • Purpose mutual defence

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SEATO
  • South-East Asia Treaty Organisation
  • Signed 1954
  • Purpose to fight communism in south-east Asia -
    to be Asian counterpart to NATO (1949)
  • Members USA, Britain, France, Philippines,
    Thailand, Pakistan.

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2. Treaties
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights in 2008
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2. Treaties
  • Australia is a signatory to numerous multilateral
    treaties.
  • Here are some prominent examples
  • UN Charter 1945
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
  • Genocide Convention 1948
  • Geneva Conventions 1949
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968
  • Convention Against Torture 1984
  • Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 1996
  • Rome Statute (1998) led to formation of
    International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2002
  • Kyoto Protocol 1997 (though not until late 2007)

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  • Australia has also signed many bilateral
  • (between just two nations) treaties. eg
  • Aust-USA Free Trade Agreement 2005

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3. United Nations
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UN Headquarters New York
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2005 UN 60th Anniversary
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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
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Ban Ki-moonUN Secretary-General
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Security Council in the UN Building New York
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Various UN committees
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Australia and the United Nations
  • Australia had also been an enthusiastic supporter
    of the League of Nations from 1919
  • 1945 - Australia a founding member of UN
  • Jessie Street and Dr Evatt helped draft the UN
    Charter
  • Dr HV Evatt (ALP Foreign Minister) was President
    of the General Assembly 1948-1949
  • Australia has been an enthusiastic supporter for
    most of the post-war period
  • Australians have been involved in the work of
    many of the UNs agencies and has actively
    contributed to numerous peacekeeping missions

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4. Peacekeeping
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East Timor
  • From 1999 then with UN
  • Again in 2006
  • Again in 2008

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Solomons - RAMSI
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Arc of Instability
  • East Timor
  • New Guinea
  • Vanuatu
  • Solomons
  • Fiji

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4. PeacekeepingMost, but not all, are operations
undertaken as part of the UN
  • Cyprus 1964
  • Sinai 1973
  • Kashmir 1976
  • Namibia 1979
  • Zimbabwe 1979
  • Gulf 1991
  • Somalia 1993
  • Rwanda 1994
  • Cambodia 1991-1993
  • East Timor 1999
  • Solomons 2003
  • East Timor 2006

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Peacekeeping - websites
  • http//www.australiaun.org/unWeb/content/policy/pe
    acekeeping.asp
  • http//www.awm.gov.au/atwar/peacekeeping.htm
  • http//www.awm.gov.au/peacekeeping/
  • http//www.anzacday.org.au/history/peacekeeping/pe
    ace01.html
  • http//www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/index.asp
  • http//www.awm.gov.au/peacekeeping/timeline/timeli
    ne.htm
  • http//www.dfat.gov.au/un/aus_un13.html
  • http//www.awm.gov.au/peacekeeping/timeline/map.ht
    m
  • http//www.defence.gov.au/index.cfm
  • http//www.unaa.org.au/praxis.php/category/view/8
  • http//www.unaa-wa.org.au/links.php

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5. Military Action
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Military Action
  • Australia played its part in maintaining peace
    and security in various
  • parts of the world by involvement in military
    actions
  • Korea 1950-53
  • Malaya 1955
  • Indonesia 1965
  • Vietnam 1965-71
  • Gulf War 1991
  • Afghanistan 2001 2006
  • Iraq 2003

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6. Humanitarian Relief
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Humanitarian Relief
  • Some examples of the areas in which the
    Australian government and non-government agencies
    provide relief
  • Boxing Day Tsunami 2004
  • Earthquakes Indonesia 2006, Turkey
  • Landmines
  • Famine
  • HIV/Aids

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Humanitarian Relief
  • For examples see
  • http//www.ausaid.gov.au/human/emergencies.cfm
  • http//www.ausaid.gov.au/closeup/default.cfm

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Colombo Plan
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo_plan
  • http//www.pandanusbooks.com.au/item.php?searchter
    mPB41B
  • Started 1951
  • Social development and economic aid to South-east
    Asian countries

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Care Australia
  • http//www.careaustralia.org.au/

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7. Regional Organisations
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ASEAN
Members   BruneiCambodiaIndonesiaLaosMalaysia
MyanmarPhilippinesSingaporeThailandVietnam
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The ASEAN Regional Forum
ASEAN Regional Forum  ASEAN countries  Other
ASEAN Regional Forum participants
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ASEAN Regional Forum
  • ASEAN regularly conducts dialogue meetings with
    other countries and an organization, collectively
    known as the ASEAN dialogue partners during the
    ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).
  • The ASEAN Regional Forum is an informal
    multilateral dialogue of 25 members that seeks to
    address security issues in the Asia-Pacific
    region. The ARF met for the first time in 1994.
  • The current participants in the ARF are as
    follows ASEAN, Australia, Canada, People's
    Republic of China, European Union, India, Japan,
    North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand,
    Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Russia, East Timor,
    and the United States. Bangladesh was added to
    ARF as the 26th member, starting from July 28,
    2006.

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APEC
  • The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a
    group of Pacific Rim countries who meet with the
    purpose of improving economic and political ties.
    It has standing committees on a wide range of
    issues, from communications to fisheries.
  • The heads of government of all APEC members meet
    annually in a summit called "APEC Economic
    Leaders' Meeting" rotating in location among
    APEC's member economies. APEC is famous for its
    tradition of having attending leaders dress in
    the national costume of the host nation.

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APEC Members

Australia Brunei Darussalam Canada Chile People's Republic of China Hong Kong, China Indonesia Japan Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Papua New Guinea Peru Philippines Russia Singapore Republic of Korea Chinese Taipei Thailand United States Vietnam
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Canberra Commission
  • http//www.dfat.gov.au/cc/cchome.html
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_Commission_o
    n_the_Elimination_of_Nuclear_Weapons

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8. Individual Australians
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce
  • Ex-Australian PM 1923-29
  • Distinguished career in League of Nations in
    1930s
  • President of League Council during Ethiopian
    Crisis (1936)
  • One of the Leagues most determined international
    statesmen
  • Bruce Report (1939) on international economic
    cooperation anticipated work of later Economic
    and Social Council of the UN
  • 1946-51 chaired World Food Council of FAO

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Stanley Melbourne Bruce
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Bruce
  • http//www.nma.gov.au/education/school_resources/r
    esource_websites_and_interactives/primeministers/s
    tanley_bruce/

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Dr H. V. Evatt
  • Foreign Minister 1941-1949 in Curtin and Chifley
    Labor governments
  • Leading role in creation of UN in 1945
  • President of UN General Assembly 1948-1949
  • Leading role in creation of the state of Israel
    in 1948

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Dr H. V. Evatt
  • http//www.lib.flinders.edu.au/resources/collectio
    n/special/evatt/evattbiog.html
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.V._Evatt

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Jessie Street
  • Founding member of the League of Nations Union
    (Aust) in 1918
  • Attended League General Assemblies in 1930 and
    1938
  • Only Australian woman delegate at the conference
    to create the UN in 1945
  • Co-founder of Un Commission on the Status of
    Women and Charter of Womens rights

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Jessie Street
  • http//www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160396b.ht
    m
  • http//uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/contents.asp?cID3
    0
  • http//www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0013b.htm

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John Sanderson
  • 1991 Adviser to the Secretary General of the UN
    to bring peace to Cambodia
  • 1991-1993 Commanded 16000 UN force (UNTAC) in
    Cambodia
  • Supervised successful elections in 1993 that
    ended civil war going on since 1970

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John Sanderson
  • http//www.awm.gov.au/peacekeeping/cambodia/austra
    lia.htm
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sanderson

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Gareth Evans
  • Foreign Minister in Hawke-Keating governments
  • Led international communitys attempts to end
    Vietnamese occupation of and end civil war in
    Cambodia
  • Initiated Canberra Commission on Elimination of
    Nuclear Weapons 1996
  • Worked for UN in recent years
  • Involved in International Crisis Group
  • Promoted the Responsibility to Protect doctrine
    (R2P) at the World Summit in 2005
  • Worked with Hans Blix on the Weapons of Mass
    Destruction Commission
  • Could have been in the running for
    Secretary-General

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Gareth Evans
  • http//www.un-globalsecurity.org/bios/evans.asp
  • http//www.answers.com/topic/gareth-evans-politici
    an
  • http//www.un.org/News/dh/hlpanel/evans-bio.htm
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Evans_(politic
    ian)

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Richard Butler
  • Head of UNSCOM 1997-1998
  • Expert on nuclear arms control
  • Wrote book Fatal Choice in 2002
  • Critic of George W. Bush Administrations
    unilateralist foreign policy
  • Advocate of strengthening Nuclear
    Non-Proliferation Treaty

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Richard Butler
  • http//www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/AuthorBiography.
    aspx?AuthorId71
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Butler_28dip
    lomat29
  • http//www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/03/10335386
    80140.html
  • http//www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813340977/refpd
    _bxgy_img_a/103-1750409-9919846?ieUTF8

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Helen Caldicott
  • Passionate campaigner against the hazards of the
    nuclear age for 35 years
  • Written numerous books on nuclear Issues
  • One of the influential women of the twentieth
    century Smithsonian Institute
  • President of Nuclear Policy Research Institute in
    Washington DC

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Helen Caldicott
  • http//experts.about.com/e/h/he/Helen_Caldicott.ht
    m
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Caldicott
  • http//sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/117236.sh
    tml
  • http//www.helencaldicott.com/

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Steve Pratt
  • Human rights campaigner
  • Humanitarian work for CARE since 1993 in Iraq,
    Somalia, Rwanda, Zaire and Yugoslavia
  • Taken prisoner in Yugoslavia in 1999
  • Wrote book in 2000 Duty of Care
  • Speaker on international issues

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Steve Pratt
  • http//www.celebrityspeakers.com.au/brspeaker_bio.
    asp?Speaker_Index_Text213
  • http//www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s48925.htm

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Rod Barton
  • Expert in WMDs
  • Member of the inspection teams in Iraq, UNSCOM
    and UNMOVIC 1991-2002
  • Adviser to US survey group in Iraq in 2003
  • Embarrased the Australian Govt by stating that he
    saw abuse of prisoners in Iraq and passed this
    info on to the Govt.

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Rod Barton
  • http//www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/11082298
    65866.html
  • http//www.apfn.net/messageboard/02-16-05/discussi
    on.cgi.57.html
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSCOM
  • http//www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s13024
    94.htm
  • http//www.wsws.org/articles/2005/feb2005/mhab-f18
    .shtml

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Peter Cosgove
  • Led INTERFET peacekeeping mission into East Timor
    in 1999
  • Success of the mission made him one of the most
    respected and popular military leaders

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Peter Cosgove
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cosgrove
  • http//www.awm.gov.au/atwar/peacekeeping.htm
  • http//www.brisinst.org.au/resources/sanderson_way
    ne_soldier.html
  • http//www.etan.org/et2000a/february/20-29/23aust.
    htm

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James Wolfensohn
  • President of World Bank 1995-2006
  • Tried to address the needs of the worlds poorest
    countries
  • 1996 launched Heavily Indebted Poor Countries
    Initiative (HIPC).
  • Advocated trust building between the Banks
    clients, NGOs and private companies

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James Wolfensohn
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfensohn
  • http//www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/bwi-wto/wolfso
    hn.htm
  • http//www.npr.org/programs/npc/2003/031029jwolfen
    sohn.html
  • http//web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTU
    S/EXTARCHIVES/0,,contentMDK20475199pagePK36726
    piPK36092theSitePK29506,00.html

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Rowan Gillies
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Afghanistan,
    Sierra Leone before
  • MSF medical coordinator in south Sudan, then
    Liberia.
  • President of MSF Australia in January 2002
  • elected international president of MSF later in
    2002

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Rowan Gillies
  • http//news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?pagearc
    hivedaysum2005-04-13
  • http//www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/20/11061
    10882796.html?fromtop5
  • http//careerfocus.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/ful
    l/329/7462/68

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Frank Lowy
  • One of Australias richest businessman
  • Lowy Institute for International Policy -
    independent, non-partisan think tank
  • to conduct original, policy-relevant research
    about international political

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Frank Lowy
  • http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lowy
  • http//www.lowyinstitute.org/

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SoIs Australia punching above its weight as a
global citizen?
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Punching above our own weight?
  • How has Australia performed as a global citizen
    in the past?
  • What is Australia doing now?
  • What should Australia do in the future?

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Consider the following
  • Know some facts on each of these areas

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Alliances
Individuals
Treaties
Australia as a Global Citizen
Regional Organisations
United Nations
Peacekeeping
Humanitarian Relief
Military Action
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