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“In many ways, it’s hard to fault,” says Maude, who was the author of the 2017 foreign policy white paper and is now a senior fellow with the Asia Society Policy Institute. “There is an impressive record of achievement. Some things have gone much better than they would have thought.” Peter Varghese, a former secretary at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and now Chancellor of the University of Queensland, says: “You would have to say the government has made a strong start in foreign policy, both in terms of substance and style, and I think that’s reflected in...
