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  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143778042
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $15.99

Morrison’s Mission: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

How a beginner reshaped Australian foreign policy




The story of the Prime Minister’s foreign policy convictions and calculations, from the Lowy Institute.

When he became Prime Minister in 2018, Scott Morrison was a foreign policy amateur confronted by unprecedented challenges: an assertive Beijing and a looming rivalry between the two biggest economies in world history, the United States and China. Morrison plunged into foreign and security policy by making highly contentious changes that will be felt for decades, not least the historic decision to build nuclear-powered submarines.


Featuring interviews with Morrison and members of his cabinet, this book tells the story of the Prime Minister's foreign policy convictions and calculations, and what drove his attitudes towards China, America and the Indo-Pacific.

  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143778042
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $15.99

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Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly was born in Adelaide, one of nine children, in 1955. He wrote his first song in 1976 and has been making records since 1978, over thirty to date. He has collaborated with many other songwriters and written music for film and theatre.
His prose has appeared in Meanjin, The Monthly, Rolling Stone and The Age, and in 2010 he published a ‘mongrel memoir’, How to Make Gravy. His most recent studio album is Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train, released in 2021.
www.paulkellystore.com.au

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